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Bare Root Haganta Plum Tree Options Explained. Potted Haganta Plum Tree (plant all year)
Maiden St Julien A Grows to 3.5m: 1-2 years old, requires pruning to the desired form (easy)
Maiden Wavit Grows to 3.5m: 1-2 years old, requires pruning to the desired form (easy)
St Julien A Bush Grows to 3.5m: 2-3 years old, very short clear stem before branching starts
St. Julien A (Half Standard) Grows to 3.5m: 80-100cm clear stem before branching starts.
Haganta Bare Root Plum Tree
Haganta is a modern, late-season dessert plum producing large, strong-scented blue fruits with sweet yellow freestone flesh. Excellent for cakes, puddings and jams, and recognised with the RHS Award of Garden Merit for reliability and flavour. Don't use Havana's by mistook because your cakes will taste very cigar-like. The fruit keeps exceptionally well, remaining usable into October and often into November. This means they keep their quality for a long time, not that you have to keep them in an exceptional well.
It is regarded as one of the best recent introductions (compared to other plums that is. We think antibiotics, the Internet and chocolate probably beat some new plum) Noted for being one of the heaviest-cropping varieties with strong disease resistance, including resistance to Sharka. The flowers are white in spring and the tree grows upright with moderate vigour and thrives in moist, well-drained soil. It is partially self-fertile and flowers in Group 3.
History: Developed in Germany in 2005 and widely grown there due to its flavour, cropping reliability and storage quality.
Month of Picking: Mid-September
Type of Plum: Eating
Fertility: This plum is C3 Partially self-fertile You will get plums from this tree without a pollination partner however your harvest will be improved by having another plum tree nearby in pollination group C2, C3 or C4.
Fruit Tree Heights
Taller does not mean more value for money. A 1 year old fruit tree can easily be substantially higher than a 2 year old, this is because they are hard pruned at 1 year old to create the desired shape. Some trees have over 100cm of height removed. They can then have another pruning at 2 years old to increase fruit growing real estate. Most fruit trees will benefit from having a third to half of the seasons new growth cut back in the Autumn to prevent long whippy branches which break easily. Age and pruning completed determine real value.
Do I Need To Stake My Bare Root Tree?
9 out of 10 times 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. If the corner is of the house and a fence then you also have leeching issues to contend with from cement and wood preservatives. Also when it rains, that area would experience higher water levels so we advise against it unless the plant is very hardy.
1 Year Maiden Bare Root Trees
If you plant a 1 Year maiden tree and do not prune it at all, it will grow a little more upright and have more clear stem.
Plum Bare Root Stocks Explained
The type of root stock you buy dictates the age, shape and several other characteristics of your plum tree.
Brompton : Final height of around 4.0+ metres.
Half Standard St Julien A : Final height of around 3.6 metres with the branches starting higher up than the Bush (more conventional tree shape. 2+ years old.
Bush St Julien A : Final height of around 3.6 metres but the branches start lower down the tree (easier picking). 2+ years old.
Maiden St Julien A : Final height of around 3.6 metres. 1+ years old (ideal for Fan/Espalier Training or other shaping)
Maiden Pixy : Final height of around 3.0 metres. 1+ years old (ideal for Fan/Espalier Training or other shaping) Will provide plums a little earlier than St Julien A rootstock.
Bush : This indicates the shape of the plum tree. A bush will have the branches starting lower down the tree to give a bush shape.
All bare root plants need to be planted between November and March whereas our containerised plum trees can be planted all year round.
Basic Pollination Explanation
If a plum tree is listed as SELF FERTILE then it produces fruit if planted by itself. If not, then it will belong to 1 of 5 pollination groups (C1,C2,C3,C4 or C5), each group being a 1-2 week block of time in April-May when the plum tree blossoms. When in blossom (or flowers) this is when a non self-fertile plum tree requires a pollination partner from the same group or one up or one down. For example a C3 non self-fertile plum tree requires another C2,C3 or C4 plum nearby.
Partially self-fertile plum trees provide fruit by themselves but give more plums if a pollination partner is close by. A typical housing estate is likely to have other plum trees close enough.
Plum Bare Root Season
The Plum bare root season is from November to March/early April depending on weather. If you order outside of these times, your order will be held until bare root trees are back in season. If you order before the season starts, you will get "pick of the bunch" as first come first served and the best trees are sent out first.
