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Early Golden Japanese Plum Bareroot

2025 Staff Favourite

Early Golden Japanese plums are Jill's favourite this year! Jill has this to say: “The flavour reminds me of a peach, making it plum delicious and me peachy keen about it!”

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History: Early Golden originated in Fonthill, Ontario where it was discovered as a chance seedling. It has since become the most popular yellow plum in Ontario. Despite its Canadian origin, this is actually a Japanese plum. 

Why We Grow It: Early Golden is a very popular Japanese freestone plum. The medium-sized fruit is very sweet with tangy yellow skin that gets a cheery red blush where the sun hits it. Medium-sized. The tree is vigorous and has a low susceptibility to black knot, although it requires careful thinning or else it will tend to bear crops every other year.

      $68.00 $54.40
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      Fruit Traits:

      Recommended Use: Fresh eating

      Fruit Size: Medium-small

      Storage: Keeps about a week in the fridge.

      Harvest: August - Early

      Tree Traits:

      Canadian Hardiness Zone: 5

      Soil Preferance: Sandy loam and loam, like plenty or organic material. Prefers average to moist conditions with well-drained soils, avoid planting anywhere that floods for more than two weeks in the spring.

      Flowering Time: Early

      Pollination Requirements: Requires a pollinator of a different Japanese plum variety that blooms around the same time

      Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

      General Growth Habit: Very vigorous with an upright and spreading growth pattern, tends to bear fruit every other year but produces heavy crops when it does. Somewhat susceptible to black knot.

      Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of plants across Canada. We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

      Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc.

      Un-grafted plants (berries, seedlings and vines) are graded by year. We follow industry standard. Species specific details will soon be updated to give you a clearer idea of size, as there can be a very large variation by species.

      Early Golden Japanese Plums on someone's hand

      Early Golden Japanese Plum Bareroot

      $68.00 $54.40
      $68.00 $54.40

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