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Remarkable plum! I got some plums at the farmers market and can't remember their name...
- Thread starter cheezz
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Well, let's try again: I have been buying a pluot at a local farmer's market in Claremont. . .
California; it is named "Flavor King".
The grower is organic, but that is not why I am buying the Flavor Kings. When compared to another pluot they sell (don't know the name, but it has that mottled greyish, reddish skin and is sometimes sold as "Dinosaur Eggs") and when compared to all other pluots I have tasted, this one blows everything else out of the water!
If you have ever tasted a dead-ripe Santa Rosa, fresh from someone's back yard, and enjoy the sweetness, tart-balance and aromatics of the Santa Rosa, I hope you can get ahold of a Flavor King Pluot! Absolutely superb; it has the juice of the plum, with firmer flesh plus the skin doesn't have that super mouth-puckering tartness that even a ripe Santa Rosa plum has. VERY aromatic, rosy, Santa Rosa plum flavor, balanced by apricot and plum sweetness. You can eat Flavor King Pluots firm!--but when they soften, OH MY GAWD, they are just fantastic. I'd make some jam or a pie or tart, but I want to eat them all fresh!
I'm thinking that due to ripeness-when-firmness of the Flavor king that it must also have some Satsuma Plum ancestry. I love Satsumas because of their beautiful ruby-red flesh and their good sweet flavor even when firm.
Hmmm, I wonder if a Flavor King tree will grow in my area--gotta look that up on the internet.
California; it is named "Flavor King".
The grower is organic, but that is not why I am buying the Flavor Kings. When compared to another pluot they sell (don't know the name, but it has that mottled greyish, reddish skin and is sometimes sold as "Dinosaur Eggs") and when compared to all other pluots I have tasted, this one blows everything else out of the water!
If you have ever tasted a dead-ripe Santa Rosa, fresh from someone's back yard, and enjoy the sweetness, tart-balance and aromatics of the Santa Rosa, I hope you can get ahold of a Flavor King Pluot! Absolutely superb; it has the juice of the plum, with firmer flesh plus the skin doesn't have that super mouth-puckering tartness that even a ripe Santa Rosa plum has. VERY aromatic, rosy, Santa Rosa plum flavor, balanced by apricot and plum sweetness. You can eat Flavor King Pluots firm!--but when they soften, OH MY GAWD, they are just fantastic. I'd make some jam or a pie or tart, but I want to eat them all fresh!
I'm thinking that due to ripeness-when-firmness of the Flavor king that it must also have some Satsuma Plum ancestry. I love Satsumas because of their beautiful ruby-red flesh and their good sweet flavor even when firm.
Hmmm, I wonder if a Flavor King tree will grow in my area--gotta look that up on the internet.