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Oak Summit Nursery

Seedling Plum Seeds

Seedling Plum Seeds

Pack contains: 15+ seeds

$8.95 CAD
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Seedling Plum seeds are collected in Manitoba from trees with small, sweet plums about 1 inch across and thick skins. These trees appear to descend from cultivated plums, possibly crossed with wild plums, but their parentage is not known.

Unlike our American and Canada Wild Plum seeds, this is not an identified wild species. Expect variation in the trees grown from these seeds, including fruit size, flavour and ripening time. The photos show fruit from earlier collections.

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Starting this seed

  1. Warm1 to 2 monthsWarm stratification
  2. Cold4 to 6 monthsCold stratification
  3. SowAfter the cold stage5 to 8 months from the start
Seed source
Manitoba
Hardiness
Zone 3
How to stratify seed

Warm stage first. Keep the same bag at room temperature for the warm period shown, then move it to the fridge.

In the fridge. Put the seed in a bag with a damp medium such as peat moss, vermiculite, sand or coco coir. The medium is only there to hold moisture. Keep the bag in the fridge, above freezing, for the cold period shown, then sow.

Or outside. Sow the seed outdoors in the fall and let winter do the cold period.

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The plant these seeds grow into

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Cold hardinessZone 3 · Canadian maps for this plant
Cold hardiness · Zone 3
Canadian climate map with provinces outlined; highlighted minimum zone: 3

Zone 3 and warmer

The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.

About these maps

Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.

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Prunus nigra

Oblong red and yellow plums with sweet flesh and tart skin, ripening here in late August, usually after American Wild Plum. It tends to form a more distinct trunk and sucker less. Useful as a pollinator for hybrid plums and as rootstock.

Cold hardiness zone: 2

Stratification: 1 to 2 months warm, then 3 to 4 months cold

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American Wild Plum Seeds

Prunus americana

Small, round, sweet tart plums ranging from yellow to deep red, for fresh eating, jam and jelly. Often grows as a multistem shrub or small tree. We use it as plum rootstock at the nursery; it also supplies pollen for other plums.

Cold hardiness zone: 3

Stratification: 1 to 2 months warm, then 3 to 4 months cold

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Pembina Plum Seeds

Prunus salicina × Prunus nigra

Seed from a Japanese Plum × Canada Wild Plum hybrid introduced in 1917. Collected in southern Manitoba. A choice for raising varied seedlings to evaluate for fruit or rootstock, not for reproducing Pembina exactly.

Cold hardiness zone: 3

Stratification: 1 to 2 months warm, then 4 to 6 months cold

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Seedling Plum Seeds

Prunus sp.

Seedling Plum seeds are collected in Manitoba from trees with small, sweet plums about 1 inch across and thick skins. These trees appear to descend from cultivated plums, possibly crossed with wild plums, but their parentage is not known. Unlike our American and Canada Wild Plum seeds, this is not an identified wild species. Expect variation in the trees grown from these seeds, including fruit size, flavour and ripening time. The photos show fruit from earlier collections.

Cold hardiness zone: 3

Stratification: 1 to 2 months warm, then 4 to 6 months cold

15+ seeds · $8.95 CAD

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