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Rivers Early Prolific Options Explained
Pixy / VVA1 Grows to 3.0m: 150-180cm tall, 12-15L pot. 2-3 years old, all essential pruning completed.
St Julien A Bush Grows to 3.5m : 150-180cm tall, 12-15L pot. 2-3 years old, all essential pruning completed.
St. Julien A (Half Standard) Grows to 3.5m: 150-180cm tall, 12-15L pot. 2-3 years old, all essential pruning completed.
Rivers Early Prolific Plum
An old-fashioned English plum variety, Rivers's Early Prolific (Prunus domestica Rivers's Early Prolific'), first introduced around 1820, and as the name implies, is a very good, heavy cropping early season plum. Distinguished by its small, bluish-purple plums, this plum is a good dessert variety when fully ripe.
Month of Picking: Early-August
Type of Plum: Eating
Fertility: This plum is self-fertile
This plum is in flowering period is C2.
Rivers Early Prolific plum tree will pollinate other non self fertile plum trees that are in plum flowering groups C1, C2 and C3
This variety of plum tree is supplied in a 7-12 litre container.
Final heights can also be controlled by container size or pruning.
Important Plum Tree information
Plum fruit trees may not winter well if left in their containers and may die so you need to plant as soon as you get them especially if purchased between October and March. Keeping them protected in a heated conservatory or green house should solve this issue if you are not going to plant them.
Mirabelle Plum Pollination
Technically speaking it is possible to use Mirabelle plum trees to pollinate standard plum trees but has more risk than using a standard plum tree. If your plum tree is self-fertile, this of course is not an issue.
Quick Fruit Tree Links
Take a look at our TOP SELLING FRUIT TREES, Wet ground issues then choose a PEAR TREE first, followed by APPLE TREES. For more information on pollination please look at choosing the CORRECT POLLINATION PARTNER
Fruit Tree Life Expectancy
Most fruit trees will give you AT LEAST 40 years of fruit. Pears can go to 70. Records of 200 year old trees exist but this is the exception, not the rule.
Do I Need To Stake My Bare Root Fruit Tree?
Most of the time, the answer will be no, especially if under 200cm tall. However our article on Tree Staking should help guide you.
Planting In The Corner Of A Garden
Air and light is reduced in this location which could promote fungus and bacterial issues. Corners of houses and fences can also suffer leeching issues so we advise against it.
