Asked April 19, 2018, 3:16 PM EDT. Mehr erfahren. Send me an email, I have much of what is available for hardy plums which you can take scions from. Large, black, favorite fresh market plum. Thanks Jessica. It sounds rather dedicated to me in their brief description. As an Indica-dominant hybrid with anywhere between 19-24% THC content, Black Ice delivers a heavy calming effect and is best enjoyed during the evening. Pour all the ingredients into the mixing glass, add grapefruit peel and stir well. Taste one to test for ripeness before you harvest. 2. Allow to drain well. I'll keep this in mind the next time I visit Toronto. The Best Plum Tree. It will be nice to be able to extend the harvest dates to the early side of the plum season. This spring I had hundreds of flowers on my Black Ice plum and only 6 or 7 on the Toka. I have that and Superior. I chose this variety for it's advertised hardiness, edible qualities, and maybe most importantly at least for me - early harvest. This could also help out with any possible future Brown rot and bug issues. Self-fertile. Jessica, where did you buy your Black Ice & Toka? BlackIce Cherry-Plum is a small tree that is commonly grown for its edible qualities. Hopefully all of these facts will prove out to be correct over time. Most old house have or had minimal insulation. The last two years the late frosts or cold winters caused total lack of plums on any of my plum varieties. Be brave. »  Sweet taste and a juicy texture is great for: »  Fresh Eating, Cooking, Baking and Preserves. Precocious, heavy setting, requires thinning. Oh, and like the roof, I'm simplifying things a bit! Sep 1, 2018 - An easy, delicious, and dairy-free summer recipe for fruity Black Plum Ice Cream that uses only honey for sweetness and optional chocolate chips. Distance between tree trunks is 7'6". And yes, it was an early plum. An R-48 should go a long way towards preventing interior air temperatures from melting roof snow. I can grow less hardy ones myself but find that a lot of good breeding has been going on for hardy plums and many work well for me -- along with hardiness from the Americans plums in the crosses comes the greater disease resistance I need. The IRC building code, which New York has adopted, requires the minimum average head room of a ceiling to be 7'. Put it in a wide vessel and pour 2 cups of hot boiling water over it. They were Black Ice, Bubblegum plum(Toka), Burgundy and Sweet Treat Plurrey. I wouldn't expect huge fruits the first or second time it fruits. I'd need not just a third, but a fourth tree... Black ice is a good plum. Compact growth makes it easy to manage. A large (2 in) freestone plum with dark purple-black skin and juicy red flesh. Both on their 3rd leaf, no fruit yet. I recall that some one replied to an alike inquiry here I think last Fall saying taste/texture was fine, but size may have been an issue. White flesh. The only other thing I can say is that the 3 plums width ranged from 1 3/4" to 2 1/4". If apricots see cold temps the fruits die easy. You need two from in this grouping to get good fruit set. Ripens late August. Purple heart included. Cheaper by far than a full roof of Ice and Water Shield..and that goes back to my comments about roof pitch. I have a tree with apricots starting now and they are all good still. I'm sure the sand cherry in this fruit will make them super hardy. I have a black ice that I purchase three years ago, and is on it's second crop. you know, I explicitly bought a toka so it would fertilize the black ice. I can't get to your e-mail through gardenweb. Northwoodswis4a. Very popular and hard to come by! My black ice plum tree from Jungs got about a dozen plums the first year. The skin of the fruit is a dark purple-black, while the flesh is a juicy red color with exceptional flavor. I recently purchased a Bubblegum 'Toka' Plum tree and a Black Ice Plum tree. Eric, since you are growing so many hardy plums, please tell us what some of your favorites are. White flesh. Northwoodswis4, Eric,I was hoping you would ask. I think I'd be tempted to try them regardless of their name ;>). I have found a source (thanks to Konrad I think) for black ice plum. But if toka tastes good by itself, and the sand cherries are going to pollinate it, I'll definitely keep it. Many z5 plum options but toka and superior are good partners (These bloom before euro plums and are american x a plum hybrids) these you could try along with black ice if you wanted. I'm worried about pollen overlap and if they will bloom the same time. BlackIce™ is a cross between a cherry plum and a conventional Japanese dessert plum resulting in large fruit with superior winter hardiness and an early ripening date. The room is ~ 18ft, 8in X 15f 5 in. BlackIce™ is a cross between a cherry plum and a conventional Japanese dessert plum resulting in large fruit with superior winter hardiness and an early ripening date. This thread is a few years old and I'm curious as to whether or not people's opinions on black ice have changed at all since a few years ago. I have started a couple threads on plums the last few days, and should have probably kept them all together but alternatives keep occurring to me as I revisit my choices. They have set a few this year. My house is 3 story above ground very tall and white this is why when it's plus 20 my yard gets plus 30. Fragrant white flowers emerge in spring. OH darn..cold and frost again, Matt, you might want to move them out of your frost pocket to my place. © 2018 Jim Whitings Nursery & Garden Center. I tell you guys what...someone needs to get serious in breeding hardy plums. No wait! from seed savers exchange has the following description. Opinions on powder room mirror and sconces.... That name makes the fruit sound kind of dangerous- you have to be sure to not drive your car onto any. In DWN formal taste tests, Superior has been one of the most consistently high-scoring varieties, as compiled in the 2014 DWN Fruit Tasting Report. Black Ice Hybrid Plum Midsummer. Athena, I am fully in support of plant breeders and have no problem with royalties...as I said. Indem Sie weiterhin auf der Website surfen bzw. Le Crescent is too bland and cracks. Very sweet juicy reddish-purple semi-freestone flesh. I have not done radiant electrical on eaves, but know it to be a method of preventing ice damming (did an entire driveway once though!). This variety has so much potential for introduction commercially and was among our best tasting varieties last season. Some of the very newest (and not yet approved in CA) rely on a natural ecosystem to do these three things...a filtered swamp....yummy! In snow country I want a 9/12 minimum and a 12/12 is preferable. Fruit size and yield is comparable to popular conventional cultivars, however, the ripening date is 2-4 weeks earlier. Wondering if anybody knows what the best pollinators are for these guys. Does it taste as good as its described? “Better to think of [plums] in their more decadent old-world iterations,” Anca L. Szilágyi writes in a cultural and personal history of the fruit . Burgundy and Sweet Treat Plurrey had no flowers. Black Ice Plum tree. So juicy and sweet. Frank, Yes fedco is offering a bunch as scion. One of my favorite hardy plums now is Purple Heart, it has been reliable and very tasty for me. Self-fertile. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Hey everyone, I'm new! Late blooming, cold hardy, widely adapted. An engineered mound system would be a good fit with your soils. If I get some pluots (grown in containers), i'll try crossing them with Superior/Alderman/etc and grow out the seedlings... Do plum purple, olive green and light blue go together? Fruit, Berry and Nut Inventory 4th ed. .... Or, there's this galvanized mirror from pottery barn on sale today for $104, was $349. This tomato has the incredible rich taste that is in many of the large, dark beefsteak types--sweet, rich with earthy overtones. Has anybody got large plums like they describe tennis ball size? Plum ice and jelly with black sesame ... - Woolworths TASTE The licensed marketing name is the 'Black Ice'. I suppose I am too detailed and verbose...but hard information and preparation are crucial parts to planning a home build. CT. Next year if I get some, I'd start checking them around July 25 to August 1. At least am hoping so. Give it a bit. ** To make Jambul / Black Plum Fruit Puree : Wash and rinse about 500 gms of jambuls well under running water. I like the desk idea, just not this cluttered one. The skins, however, can be tart regardless of its color. Black Ice Plum is a quick-to-bear variety, naturally small, somewhat self fruitful though more productive with a pollinator such as Toka. I just don't know how it works for scion....can't be more than the royalty on a whole tree, but perhaps it can only be done by previous agreement. Drench your floors in black for a memorable interior scene, Black can make for rich interiors, but it can be intimidating. And it's so pretty ...I could totally see this over the vanity/ marble. My trees are wee babies. Global warming trends are causing your freeze thaw issues...these will effect the entire roof and the critical time is as the water continues to flow and the air cools down again for the night (or day!). About head room in the loft. A few European plum varieties such as Damson, Italian Prune, Valor, and Stanley are at least partially self-fertile but will generally yield better with cross-pollination. The Black Ice Plum tree is the love child of a California cherry plum tree and a large Japanese plum tree called P. Salicina. "Black Ruby" is a large reddish-black plum with very juicy, yellow flesh. This tree is too vigorous here and grew so fast the bark split badly ( guess that's what caused the fungus/disease to appear). maybe 35 feet away. If you let toka properly ripen on the tree until they are soft and colour deep red they are one of the best plums I've tasted . Would Black Ice plum tree be ok in the Crosslake MN area and would Pipestone work for pollinator or would Toka be better. Tanks and filter cleaning are required on a regular basis, as is mound integrity inspection. the desk can stay or go. Vigorous, productive tree has a compact growth habit. Excellent flavor, I definitely have to agree with this! This will be easy to achieve with the steeper roof pitch. Thank you for notes on deliciousness! I planted Black Ice last spring. Has been shown to be hardy and produce fruit in USDA zone 3b. I wonder if my arranged marriage between black ice and toka is the pits, with those sand cherries *I already had* sneaking up the back stairs at night. A cross between cherry plums and conventional Japanese dessert plums, Black Ice is exceptionally winter hardy and early ripening, making it a great choice for northern gardeners who want to grow fruit. BlackIce Plum- zone 4-8. The hills are the hardest and everyone wants a view! In general, the darker (purple-er) the plum, the sweeter the fruit flesh. Best enjoyed with a towel in hand. Although no type of plum tree (Prunus sp.) Superior is good but can get too mushy. Sweet and juicy but still firm when fully ripe, with very little tartness at skin and pit. The flavor is excellent, VERY sweet and juicy. 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