I was at the market today and in the produce area they had plumcots for sale.

Anyone ever heard of or tried them???

Yes, there are several kinds. I have Spring Satin plumcot, Apex plumcot, Black Alexaner Plumcot, other plumcots still unnamed and Flavorella plumcot.

The plumcot is 50% plum and 50% apricot by phenotypic expression.

I've posted my frustration and success with Flavorella plumcot which bore for me truly the best tasting stone fruits I ever had, just last year, after 7 years of bloom.

Joe
Is the spring satin a low chill variety? I wonder how it would do in a high humidity location like zone 9.
Karl

I think it should do well over there. the spring satin was developed for the east coast. The high elevation should most probably satisfy the chilling hours requirement. What to worry would be too much moisture and humidity during the blooms, nothing that a plastic draped over it should help every time it rains.

I would assume then that they are not true to type? If I decide to have one of my very own; after trying them of course.

Yes, most likely they are sterile and will not sprout. I've learned that one of the selection criteria used by for-profit plant breeders is that the hybridized plants would not have viable seeds or pollens. After all, the pollens contain all their hardwork of history of the laborious cross breeding.

but those produced from government funded research stations will usually have viable seeds, and in that case your seed will definitely be a zygotic hybrid or recombined producing a distinctly different plant. This is only for prunus. So why not obtain a scionwood to produce true to type?

Stone fruits are not nucellar although most of the time, the seedlings will be closely similar to the parent. But for the plumcots, you will get wider variations.