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Sprite hybrid plum trees

Prunus x
  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 1

Sprite is a modern hybrid Japanese / Myrobalan plum. The dark purple fruits have a golden yellow flesh and a sweet flavour.

The plums ripen over an extended period of about 3 weeks, which is ideal for the home orchard as it allows several pickings.

Sprite is unusual in being both very cold-hardy, so suitable even for USDA zone 4, but also needing only about 400 chill hours, meaning it can also be grown in areas with Mediterranean climates and very short mild winters.

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Growing and Training

Sprite is partially self-fertile and should set a good crop on its own. However cropping may be improved if there are other Japanese plum trees nearby.


Sprite characteristics

  • Gardening skillAverage
  • Self-fertilityPartially self-fertile
  • Flowering group1
  • Disease resistanceAverage
  • Picking periodmid-Julylate Julyearly August
  • Picking seasonMid
  • Food usesEating freshDual purpose
  • Cling-stoneFreestone
  • USDA cold hardyZone 4 (-34C)
  • Summer average maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)Warm (25-30C / 76-85F)Cold (< 20C / 67F)
  • Chill requirementLow-chill
  • Country of originUnited States
  • Period of origin1950 - 1999
  • Flower colourWhite
  • Flesh colourGolden / Yellow
  • Fruit colourBlackPurple

More about hybrid plum trees

Hybrid or inter-specific plums make an interesting addition to the home orchard. The European plum (Prunus domestica) and Japanese plum (Prunus salicina) are perhaps the best known of the fruiting plum species, but there are many others, and numerous natural hybrids between these species. Man-made plum hybrids have been popular since the 1960s and typically aim to marry the productivity and flavours of European and Japanese plums with the rustic qualities of other species. The Siberian plum (Prunus ussriensis) for example can bring excellent cold-hardiness to a hybrid variety.


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