Thoughts on If these Varieties are Real?
Started putting my bare roots in back in February (California zone 10a, we get about 600 chill hours below 40 but never frost, so planting starts around Valentines Day). Unfortunately, my Methley plum and the Purple Heart Pluot I planted both never leafed out (the plum is almost definitely dead, but the pluot is still green, just refusing to bud out).
I need a pollinator for my other plum tree, and would actually like to have a couple more varieties for a wider season anyway, so I went poking around on Etsy, and found this 3-pack. The white "Sugar" plum is also sold under a different name elsewhere in the shop, though it also looks like they are using a translation app, so I am accounting for the possibility it could be getting translated from another language. I generally look up varieties to get an idea of harvest windows and to just get more general info, and this one I just can't find at all.
If I get a sweet purple and two kinds of sweet white plums, the price would still be "ok" for the pack ($60 after discount for three bare roots, shipping free, which works out to $20 each), even if they're not "rare fruit trees". I do believe they are shipping real fruit trees because they have several reviews that go back to "real people looking" accounts, but the shop isn't very old, so who knows if everyone is actually just getting rooted random plum whips.
What does everyone think here? Bogus listing? Possibly good deal?
Any ideas on the varieties and where to get info, if they are real (possibly with names translated from a different language)?
