The best fruit in the 21st century---American plumcot
Plumcot (Prunus simonii Carr)， is a crossbreed species from a plum and an apricot. Its fruits have special redolent flavor, and it has higher sugar content than a plum or apricot. It is very good among the fruit kingdom.
Plumcot has the bio-characters almost the same as plum. Plumcot tree has wine color bark. Its leaf is oval or long oval in shape, with dark green color in the upper side while green in the under side, about 5.5～9.5cm long, 2.6～4.1cm wide. Petiole is 1.2cm long. Its flowers are green when bloom then turn to white. Its drupe is round shape. It can be planted in the area suit for plum or apricot. It grows fast, two years old tree may have a bottom diameter about 6-7 cm and with a yearly fruit production about 8-10 kilo gram. During its flourishing period for fruiting, in every 667 square meters, one can get over 2000 kilo gram plumcot fruit.
Plumcot as a new cross fruit will certainly bring huge influence into the world fruit industry. In American there is already 1500 hectare area used for plumcot plantation. Europe, South American, South Africa and Australian have introduced this plant. The plumcot has an intensely sweet and fruit flavor that, though akin to that of its parents, is likened to an incomparable blend of fruit juices. The true plumcot, with its generally equal heritage of plum and apricot, has a plumlike shape, smooth, dark red skin and an almost spicy flesh. It has high value, in the American market the selling price of plumcot is $10 per kilo gram, according to the fruit production of each 667 square meters is 2000 kilogram the rewards of each 667 square meters is $20000. Plumcot can fruit early, according to the experience in China, every single fruit weighs about 80-150 gram, the two year old tree can fruit, and from the fourth year to the twenty-fifth year it’s the flourishing fruiting period of Plumcot tree. In the common condition the fruit can be stored for 15-30 days, when cooled the fruit can be stored 3-6 months. Plumcot can tolerate most kind of soil, cold and drought; it also has little insects and disease; It can be planted in the area where is suitable for plum or apricot.
Because of its high value, Plumcot is popular for most planters. As the increasing need of Plumcot, the price of its seedlings is very high. Using the common grafting propagation will cost lots of time and with low efficiency. Using the technique of efficiency and rapid non-tube plant clone (TERNPC) method will ensure high efficiency; it is good for plantation in large scales. Investment on TERNPC for the rapid propagation of plumcot will cost less; it will certainly bring ample rewards for the investors.
if you want to know more detail, please go to http://www.clonep.com/english/ (http://www.clonep.com/english/).
E-mail:clone@126.com
Tel:(+86) 1086010309