Guess what tree this came from

[Chrispy]

Last night I picked the fruit off the self set tree in our garden.

 

[Kalimna]

Plum? What is the stone like?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Excellent! What do they taste like?

 

[Harry 48]

Plum or Bullace you may be on a winner with a new variety are they sweet or sour

 

[Phil Pascoe]

A bullace is blue/black, like an oversized sloe.

 

[Chrispy]

Think more exotic! well non native, and when I said self set what I meant was it started growing in our compost heap so I took pity on it and moved it somewhere more suited to its needs.

 

[Kalimna]

Nectarine then?

 

[Chrispy]

Nectarine then?

Whats the question mark for? yes Nectarine.



(by the way this was never meant to be a serious quiz question)

Any one want some Nectarine wood? it's now getting to big so will have to go.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

It didn't cross my mind it was anything else. You didn't say what it tasted like, though. There must be 100's of varieties and yours is an unknown, anyway.

 

[Harry 48]

A bullace is blue/black, like an oversized sloe.

Bullace come in many colours a lot of ornamental plum trees are of the bullace plum strain because they are one of the earliest flowering

 

[Chrispy]

It didn't cross my mind it was anything else. You didn't say what it tasted like, though. There must be 100's of varieties and yours is an unknown, anyway.

Well it tastes like a Nectarine :? ,a bit smaller and not quite as sweet as from the supermarket but not bad, I intend to make some chutney and then freeze the rest for cooking with. :mrgreen:

 

[Harry 48]

Well if it tastes like a nectarine it probably is anyone been eating nectarines in the garden and planting the stones :lol:

 

[stevebuk]

they are probably not as sweet yet because they dont look quite ready to pick ..

 

[paulm]

Just been cutting up some damson and plum trunks, beautiful coloured wood inside, don't know if nectarine would be similar ?

Cheers, Paul

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Me too...I had a large plumb trunk given me in the winter and the colour is amazing...a reddy purple. Only downside, it really stains the cast iron table of the bandsaw for some reason. Acidic sap maybe???

 

[Chrispy]

they are probably not as sweet yet because they dont look quite ready to pick ..

I had to pick them, they were falling off just looking at them.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

I seem to recall someone who knows a lot more about gardening than I do telling me that you need to ripen nectarines under glass for max flavour. They need decent sunshine.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

A bullace is blue/black, like an oversized sloe.

Bullace come in many colours a lot of ornamental plum trees are of the bullace plum strain because they are one of the earliest flowering

Sorry, I thought they were all sloe coloured. I googled, but could only find green ones which were a wild greengage. I didn't realise the rootstock influenced the flowering time, I thought it only strengthened the tree.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Me too...I had a large plumb trunk given me in the winter and the colour is amazing...a reddy purple. Only downside, it really stains the cast iron table of the bandsaw for some reason. Acidic sap maybe???

Strange, I'd have thought your plumb wood would have been the colour of lead.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Oi wotchit you There's nowt rong wi me spellin