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ActivePrunus salicina Lindl. · Japanese plum
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Cultivation
Pollinator cultivar — Japanese plum
Prunus salicina Lindl.
Most Japanese plum cultivars are self-incompatible and require cross-pollination by cultivars of their own species or hybrid cherry plum, as they are genetically incompatible with the European plum.
In the reference 73 varieties crop Japanese plum, where this is mentioned in the description.
The Japanese plum is a diploid species with 16 chromosomes, which causes its genetic isolation from the European plum, which has 48 chromosomes. Due to this incompatibility and differences in flowering periods, where the Japanese plum blooms significantly earlier, these species cannot serve as pollinators for each other.
To ensure fruit set, it is necessary to select pollinator cultivars within the Japanese plum species or use Russian plum (hybrid cherry plum) cultivars. The main condition for pollination efficiency is the precise synchronization of the phenological flowering phases of the selected cultivars, as well as the presence of several different cultivars in the orchard for cross-pollination.
General information about the subject — on the page Pollinizer variety.
Varieties of Japanese plum mentioned in the description
Selection based on the description text, not on official evaluation: these data are absent from registers. For specific variety details, please refer to its profile.
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ActivePrunus salicina Lindl. · Japanese plum