Category: Plum trees
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Czar

Czar is a large dark black/purple plum, with good astringency and ideal for culinary purposes.  It can also be eaten fresh if you leave it to get fully ripe.  Rated by Hogg (writing in the 1880s) as an "excellent plum".

The blossom is unusually large for a plum.

Czar plum trees for sale (2010/2011 season)

Deliver to mainland UKDelivery to the mainland UK (price includes delivery)

Mature height Supplied as *Delivery
period		 Price
inc. delivery		 Quantity
Medium (2.5m - 3m) 1-year - Bare-root - Pixy rootstock Nov-March £32.00
Medium (2.5m - 3m) 2-year - 12L container - Pixy rootstock Sept-April £39.00 No stock
Large (3m - 3.5m) 1-year - Bare-root - St.Julien rootstock Nov-March £32.00 No stock
Large (3m - 3.5m) 2-year - 12L container - St.Julien rootstock Sept-April £39.00 No stock

Product formats | Bare-root or Container-grown | Delivery | Rootstocks

All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

*Delivery period: Container-grown trees will be delivered from September 2010. Bare-root trees will be delivered from mid-November 2010. You can order now and your items will be reserved for you, but you will not be asked to pay until nearer the time of delivery.



Uses

Growing

  • Cropping - Heavy
  • Fertility - Self-fertile
  • Flowering group - 3
  • Gardening skill - Easy
  • Disease resistance - Average
  • Vigour - Average growth
  • Attractive tree
  • Attractive blossom
  • Attractive fruit

Climate

Pollination partners for Czar

Czar is in flowering group 3. It is self-fertile and does not need a pollination partner. The following varieties will pollinate Czar:

Important: advice about pollination


How to grow Czar plum trees

Czar is an excellent choice for less than ideal conditions.  It is reliable, heavy-cropping, self-fertile, and can be grown shade or north-facing situations if necessary.  The tree is compact and attractive.  Czar has average disease resistance but good frost resistance.

Historical details

Raised in Hertfordshire in the 1870s, UK, a cross between Prince Englebert and Early Rivers, and named in honour of the Emperor of Russia who was visiting England at the time.  Quite widely grown in the UK as a commercial plum variety.