Santa Rosa plums remain an honest-to-goodness - clip favorite with sweet , juicy red flesh perfect for eating off the tree or for canning and baking . The trees put forth beautiful fragrant blooms , adding to the garden ’s knockout in early natural spring . In late fall , the large fruit are quick for harvest , making all the work of growing Santa Rosa plum well worth the crusade .

History

The history of plums dates back to the Roman Empire when more than 300 varieties were grown . mod cultivars from these early plum trees are hollo European plums . The other type of plum , the Japanese plum tree , originated in China before being bring in to Japan in the 1600s . The plums became very popular in Japan , where they became an important part of the culture . In the former 1800s , Nipponese plums were introduce in the United States , with the Santa Rosa plum tree cultivar becoming a adult deary .

Description

Growing up to 12 feet in elevation as well as width , these plum trees flourish in USDA hardiness zones 5 to 9 , where danger of frost is minimum . This democratic tree diagram features fragrant blank blossoms in late May . In the third to fifth yr , the tree grow fruits that mature into turgid , deep ruby-red plums with yellow flesh ready for harvesting in previous July or other August .

Planting and Fertilization

Santa Rosa plums tree thrive if implant in well - drained soil in full sunshine . Most Japanese plum command another Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree with which to cross-pollinate and set fruit . While Santa Rosa will ego - cross-pollinate to a sealed point , more yield appears on the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree if it cross-pollinate with another suitable plum tree . Newly plant plum trees require light fertilization during the first year with fertilizer applied during previous wintertime , after fruit and at the close of summer in following age . Regular lachrymation also avail the tree diagram become well - established .

Uses

Nothing pose the impertinent , juicy taste of a Santa Rosa plum plucked and eaten right off Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . These plums also work well when made into press , jellies and preserves , as well as puddings and sauce . The plums also work well in afters such as crisps , crumbles and other baked goods .

Diseases and Pests

As an older cultivar , Santa Rosa plums stay on susceptible to plum leafage scald . This disease appears when bacterium is put in to the plant by leafhoppers , a plant life - fertilise worm that thrives on dotty plum tree . One style to avoid the disease is to dispatch any wild plum trees located within several hundred curtilage of the Santa Rosa plum tree about to be constitute . Deer and hare also make problems by eating the barque from the tree diagram , with deer also break branches . The use of deer fence and rabbit guard offers a way to deal with this problem .

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