Victoria plum tree

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• Gardening skill: Beginner
• Picking season: Mid
• Self-fertility: Self-fertile
• Pollination group: 3

Victoria is a self-fertile English plum - attractive fruit, good for eating, and outstanding flavor for cooking.

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All about Victoria plum tree

Victoria is by far the most popular plum variety in the UK, dating from the Victorian era, and well-known for heavy crops of very attractive plum-colored fruit.

Victoria really excels as a culinary plum. It cooks to a distinctive pink/orange puree which makes a very good jam and a good-flavored filling for pies. The stone is semi-clinging, and fairly easy to remove from the flesh. The flavor has a good sweet/sharp balance, and there is often a note of almond in the background which is a characteristic of Victoria.

The plums will ripen over a period of several weeks and if you want to eat them rather than cook with them, leave the plums on the tree until they are fully ripe - the skins will start to become a darker red /purple rather than the more usual orange flushed color.

How to grow

Victoria produces a lot of pollen and is a useful pollinator of other mid-season flowering plum varieties. The blossom is also more frost-resistant than that of many other plums.

Left un-trained, most plum trees will grow into a standard tree-shape - but this is not the best structure for supporting the heavy crops which Victoria is capable of. A Victoria plum with a branch broken under the weight of fruit is an all too-common sight - and of course broken branches are ideal entry points for the fungal diseases to which Victoria is susceptible. This problem can be avoided by encouraging the young tree to grow as a shorter-stemmed bush with wide-spreading branches and the central leader retained. Thinning the fruitlets during May will also help, and the remaining plums will be larger and have a more concentrated flavor.

Even if you thin the fruitlets Victoria is invariably a very heavy-cropping tree, in fact probably the heaviest-cropping of all European plums.

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History

Victoria was found growing in a garden in southern England in the early 1800s, and introduced for sale in the 1840s by Denyer, a nurseryman from Brixton in south London. Its parentage is not known.

Victoria characteristics

• What level of gardening skill is needed to grow Victoria?Beginner
• Is Victoria self-fertile?Self-fertile
• What flowering group is Victoria?3
• Is Victoria good for pollinating others?Good
• What season do you pick Victoria?Mid
• UsesEating freshCulinaryDual purpose
• How long can you keep Victoria in a fridge?1 week
• What is the overall disease resistance of Victoria?Poor
• Summer maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)Warm (25-30C / 76-85F)Cold (< 20C / 67F)
• Where does Victoria originate from?United Kingdom
• When was Victoria first introduced?1800 - 1849
• Fruit colorRed