Variety profile
Plum ‚Ruth Gerstetter’
Prunus domestica · Rosaceae
- Ripening
- früh
- Harvest
- Week 28 to 30
- Vigour
- mittel
- Origin
- Deutschland (Gerstetten)
- Introduced
- 1920
- Self-fertile
- No
- Pollination group
- selbstunfruchtbar
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Use
- Tafel, Backen
- Pollinator
- The Czar, Koenigin Victoria, Ontariopflaume
- Rootstock
- St. Julien A, Wavit, Wangenheims Frühzwetschge Sämling
- Disease resistance
- Monilia: mittel, Scharka: mittel
About this variety
Machine-translated, may contain errors.
Probably the earliest blue plum in the garden, ripe as early as mid to late July, long before most other varieties begin. It is self sterile and needs another variety flowering at the same time as a pollinator, for example ‚The Czar' or ‚Königin Victoria'. It hardly keeps at all, so pick it and enjoy it promptly.
Sweet, mild and juicy flesh with a delicate skin. As the first plum of the year a small celebration, at its finest fresh from the tree.
Care and diseases
Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.
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