Sold out for the 2024 Season. We will have bareroot fruit trees available again for pre-order in Fall 2024 and they will be shipped starting January 2025.
Optimize Shipping: Shipping is calculated by box size. We can fit up to 8 bare-root fruit trees in a box. Multi-budded fruit trees and Jujube trees will count as 2 due to branching. Optimize your shipping by ordering multiple trees.
Methley Plum- Variety Information
- Large round plums with reddish-purple skin and blood-red flesh.
- Sweet, juicy, mild flavor.
- Low chill hour requirement, good choice for milder climates.
- An attractive tree with lovely, fragrant blossoms in the spring.
- Methley is a vigorous grower with early, heavy crops of plums every year.
- The fruit has a good storage life for a plum.
- Self-fruitful.
- Japanese plums bloom and ripen earlier, tend and to have larger crops.
- They are not generally self-pollinated and can be tricky to grow in areas with late frosts.
- Larger, firmer fleshed, and rounder than European plums.
- Japanese plum trees have rougher bark, more persistent spurs, and more numerous flowers than European plums.
- They are also more precocious, disease-resistant, and vigorous than European plums.
- Japanese plum flavor ranges from sweet to tart.
- By pruning, you can keep your tree at any height.
- Grafted onto Myro 29C rootstock
- USDA Zone 5-9, Requires 250 chill hours to set fruit. Protect when temperatures fall below -10°F.
- Approximate harvest period (for Central CA): August.
- This tree will be shipped dormant and bare-rooted.
- Please see our "Dormant Tree & Plant Guarantee" below
Click here for our Bare Root Fruit Tree Growing Guide (pdf)
Guia de cultivo para un arbol de raiz desnuda