Pluot®
Pluot® interspecific hybrids are complex crosses of plum and apricot. Unlike plumcots, which are simple plum x apricot crosses, Pluot® interspecifics were developed by the Zaigers through intricate hybridizing, requiring several generations of crosses to create these new fruits.
Pluot® interspecifics have predominantly plum parentage and smooth skins like plums.
The complex, intense flavor of both Pluot® and Aprium® is unique to interspecifics, much like a blend of fruit juices where the mixture is an improvement over any of the separate ingredients. Additionally, the sugar content of our interspecifics is much higher than in any standard plum or apricot--yielding fruit of incomparable sweetness.
These delicious new types of fruit will provide new opportunities for the tree fruit grower.
We introduced Flavor Delight Aprium® interspecific and Flavor Supreme and Flavor Queen Pluot® interspecifics to the home garden nursery trade in 1989. The Pluot® interspecifics described on this page, along with the new interspecific Zaiger rootstocks--Citation, Atlas and Viking--represent the most advanced fruit varietal development in the world today.
Pluot® and Aprium® are registered trademarks of Zaiger Genetics, Modesto, California.
Pluot®
Dapple Dandy
Pluot® interspecific. Large, firm fruit with distinctive, pale green to yellow, red-spotted skin color and pink to red flesh; ripens in late July and develops good acid to sugar balance with excellent flavor; very productive, spreading tree needs a midseason blooming pollenizer; 400 to 500 hour chilling requirement (Patent # 9524)
Flavor Fall
Pluot® interspecific.Harvest Date: 4th week of September to 1st week of October Size: 35 to 50 Color: Deep maroon red Flavor: sweet & crisp. Chilling Requirements: N/A
Flavorich
Pluot® interspecific. Large, black fruit with orange flesh that ripens in late August; sweet fruit with excellent flavor; moderately spreading tree; midseason to late blooming pollenizer requred; 800 to 900 hour chilling requirement (Patent # 8546)
Flavor Jewel
Pluot® interspecific. Harvest 1st to 2nd week of August. Medium to large-sized fruit. Color: bright reddish-orange over bright yellow. Sweet flavor. 600 hour estimated chilling requirements. Vigorous, upright tree with a late bloom & heart-shaped fruit. Pollenizer required (U.S. Plant Patent # pending)
Flavor King
Pluot® interspecific. Medium-sized, red fruit ripening in the 2nd week of August; holds well on tree; very sweet with excellent, distinctive flavor; moderately spreading tree; midseason to late blooming pollenizer required; 800 to 900 hour chilling requirement (Patent # 8026)
Flavorosa
Pluot® interspecific. Medium-sized fruit with dark purple skin and red flesh; very sweet fruit with very good flavor; moderately vigorous, spreading, precocious tree; extra early blooming pollenizer required; 400 to 500 hour chilling requirement (Patent Pending)
Flavor Supreme
Pluot® interspecific. Medium-sized, moderately firm fruit with mottled red over greyish green skin color and red flesh; excellent flavor; ripens in early June; subject to shoulder and blossom end cracking; early blooming pollenizer required; 500 to 600 hour chilling requirement (Patent # 6763)
Sierra Rose
Pluot® interspecific. Harvest 2nd to 3rd week of August. Large fruit with deep red-to-purple with speckles. Sweet. 400 hour estimated chilling requirement. Vigorous, moderately spreading tree with a mid-season bloom, may require a pollenizer. (U.S. Plant Patent # Pending)
Spring Flavor
Pluot® interspecific.
