Gulf Ruby Plum Tree

Plant in full sun.

Gulf ruby plum tree.

Gulf ruby plum tree is a medium sized plum with ruby red skin and honey sweet yellow flesh. Cross pollinate with a gulf gold or gulf blaze which crop a little later so this will also extend your fruiting season into. Fruit ripens early may. Very low chill 275 hrs.

Plums taste absolutely gorgeous rich and sweet. Gulf ruby ripens in november gulfgold in december. It cross pollinates with all the other gulf serie. Needs another plum tree for pollination.

We recommend another gulf series variety. Gulfbeauty gulfblaze and gulfrose are all low chill hour plum trees that will grow well in florida. Gulf varieties of plum trees are japanese type plums and will make fruit that are smaller than your average plum. Mature fruits are about 1 2inches in diameter and are usually ready for harvest around may to june.

Both are prolific but the gulf ruby is a bigger tree. Needs another plum tree for pollination. Grows to 4 m x 4 m. The gulf ruby plum is a low chill plum that crops in early november.

Plum gulf ruby grafted diana s edible fruits update. Ripens around mid november to mid december. Rich flavor purple red skin and rose red center. Another university of florida patented release uspp 12833.

Plum gulf ruby juicy yellow flesh clingstone large size if properly thinned attractive red skin blush resistant to bacterial spot. Gulf rose plum tree low chill tropical plum. They will produce fruit from the fort myers area to the panhandle of florida the lower southern regions of georgia and the warmer areas of the gulf coast states. The gulf series of plum trees have been developed to adapt to our mild low chill winters.

Fruiting months november and december. Gulfrose has heavy crops of medium sized fruit. Next to a gulfgold for pollination. Non patented variety from the university of florida.

This is a gulf ruby plum and it is a really great low chill plum so it is great if you are in warmer areas. Fruit need early bagging from fruit fly. We recommend another gulf series variety. Fruit ripens late may.