Got one! I just planted it, now have to find room for 2 Mexican plums. We'll see how they do in southern Arizona. I also got a capulin cherry (P. avium), a domesticated variety of one brought to the Americas by Spanish colonists. It's a good tree, and seems to very heat and wind resistant.
Hi Eric The Green, would you be willing to mail me some seeds of your Chickasaw plum variety? They are native in my area but not very sweet. I do have other wild plums on my property that are single thunked trees, if you would like to swap seed.
Chickasaw plums can vary somewhat from tree to tree or colony to colony but the ones we have here are very sweet. There are great named Varieties of prunus angustifolia too, like Guthrie and Odom. There is an old variety from Louisiana called Caddo Chief and the Native Americans had Prunus Angustifolia orchards. I have heard that the flatwoods plums weren't very palatable and thats why they also called them hog plums because they were only fit for the hogs.
I do not know how the Chickasaw plums taste in Florida but the University of Florida says here that Prunus Angustifolia fruits are popular with wildlife and man and make a delicious jelly or eaten fresh. edis.ifas.ufl.edu/st504. Eat the weeds channel is in Florida I believe and has a good video on Chickasaw plum. Also the Guthrie variety of Chickasaw plum was found in Florida.
@@Candorsmayhem I can assure you that mine in Navarro County Texas are super sweet when they are ripe. If picked ally they do taste a bit tart or sour. We eat them by the handfuls in season, which is kinda short.
these things are natures gold
I found huge wild patch today first time in my life they are delicious
Got one! I just planted it, now have to find room for 2 Mexican plums. We'll see how they do in southern Arizona. I also got a capulin cherry (P. avium), a domesticated variety of one brought to the Americas by Spanish colonists. It's a good tree, and seems to very heat and wind resistant.
Great video! I'm thinking about planting some this coming year!
Great! They are the only reliable plum that I've grown. Most stone fruits are destroyed by disease here but these aren't affected at all.
You said it's important to pick the right variety. How? Where did you get yours? Thanks
I've had mine in the ground for 3 years and no fruit yet it gets massive.
Do an update? I just planted some i found myself, id like to see a new video of what they look like a year later
Would you sell scions for grafting?
What USDA growing zone are you in Eric?
I am in Zone 7b. Our typical winter low is around 10 degrees and hot summers with usually several days of 100+ degrees.
Tony, I am in Zone 8 here in Texas and we have so many of these growing wild on my land. I do zero for them and get more and more every year.
Hi Eric The Green, would you be willing to mail me some seeds of your Chickasaw plum variety? They are native in my area but not very sweet. I do have other wild plums on my property that are single thunked trees, if you would like to swap seed.
I thought the sweet ones were flatwoods plum, Prunus umbellata. I'm pretty sure Chickasaw plums are only sour.
Chickasaw plums can vary somewhat from tree to tree or colony to colony but the ones we have here are very sweet. There are great named Varieties of prunus angustifolia too, like Guthrie and Odom. There is an old variety from Louisiana called Caddo Chief and the Native Americans had Prunus Angustifolia orchards. I have heard that the flatwoods plums weren't very palatable and thats why they also called them hog plums because they were only fit for the hogs.
Eric The Green that's not what the university of Florida says
I do not know how the Chickasaw plums taste in Florida but the University of Florida says here that Prunus Angustifolia fruits are popular with wildlife and man and make a delicious jelly or eaten fresh. edis.ifas.ufl.edu/st504. Eat the weeds channel is in Florida I believe and has a good video on Chickasaw plum. Also the Guthrie variety of Chickasaw plum was found in Florida.
@@Candorsmayhem I can assure you that mine in Navarro County Texas are super sweet when they are ripe. If picked ally they do taste a bit tart or sour. We eat them by the handfuls in season, which is kinda short.
That was suppose to say if picked early, lol