SPICE ZEE Nectaplum -The Perfect Fruit?? Hybrid Fruit Harvest and Taste Test!😋

The "Spice Zee" Nectaplum is a new hybrid fruit that has the taste of plum and Nectarine. In this video you'll learn about nectaplums, how to harvest them, what makes them so special, and see a taste test of a ripe Spice Zee!
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[@xs8372]

Finally got a hold of one of these trees and planted it yesterday. Wanted a tree with diff color foliage to stand out from my other fruit trees

[@TheBusyGardener]

It's a seriously gorgeous tree. Ornamental AND amazing fruit. I think you're gonna love it

[@traxmom]

So glad I bought one for my new backyard orchard this year!

[@TheBusyGardener]

You're gonna LOVE it!!!

[@BoltActionBob]

Going to have to plant one of these next spring! Great video, thanks BG!

[@TheBusyGardener]

You'll love it! Thanks for watching!

[@yerneedsry]

yeah good luck there sold out everywhere. and I mean everywhere online.

[@tlc8386]

Even my tree the leaves are maroon---and spicy---wow what a great fruit---

[@salfrench3471]

Absolutely agree. If only one stonefruit, this one.

[@0230Raveena]

I have two bearing plants and its so very good. The flavor is almost aromatic, for some reason mine has the fruit flavor with a hint of jasmine.

[@benjaminbroudy2982]

My aunt and uncle have some sort of nectaplum, don't know the variety but it is all deep deep purple, basically black. They are super tasty

[@mrod7575]

I planted the spice zee nectaplum last year in front of my house because of its foliage. It should fruit next year but sadly we won't be able to enjoy it as well as the othere 12 fruit trees we planted last year. We're fleeing California thanks to these restrictions but I will take my favorite emerald beaut plum I love the knowledge you give keep up the good work.

[@ryloncross6207]

Dang that’s too bad! Hopefully people will start waking up and stop voting Democrat as they leave, Commiefornia. Look at the way the liberals have ruined the entire West Coast and the north. I need to wake up and repent and vote for freedoms sake! Good luck on your next plantings!

[@davidlane777]

Ive planted a bunch of fruit trees around my home too and cant imagine moving away and selling to someone else. Sure it was a very tough decision.

[@CurtisBrandt]

I've got just one more tree planned for my lot - and it's one of these! Can't wait until it arrives in a month or two.

[@TheBusyGardener]

I think you're gonna love it!

[@mrminer071166]

Happy to join the cult of Spice-Zee; definitely an 11 for flavor, and an 11 for looks. ANY WORD on how it dries? Does it make a nice tasty chewy dried peach product?

[@salfrench3471]

Citrus kinokuni (marketed in Australia as Sugar bubba) is peak citrus, the way spicezee is peak stonefruit. Small tree, flowers profusely, fragrance is divine. Small fruit, extremely tasty.

[@baomichael]

Same as nectaplum or different

[@spandir]

My favourite fruit and tree too. wondering ur trees are not covered with netting?? How you manage fruit fry ? chemical or eco way ?? fruit fly problem is inevitable in syd Australia . how you control fruit fly pls advise? thnx

[@kroxy6270]

My peach tree leaves were devoured by caterpillars in spring, will BT work on them?

[@robkeller3431]

Just bought a 15 gallon spice zee!

[@Bajaranger]

Are they too similar to a pluot to have both. I have two types of nectarines and a new multi pluot, flavor supreme, flavor king and a dapple dandy. My son says his spicezee is his favorite stone fruit. Thanks

[@baomichael]

Great video I got one but only one fruit must wait till next year 😆

[@TheBusyGardener]

When it gets producing, there's no stopping it! 😃

[@EvergreenLivingSpaces]

Sold😂 I'm getting the tree...fruit tree # 46 😅 we'll get her in somewhere

[@ChadGardenSinLA]

Hello from South Los Angeles! Where did you get your Spice Zee nectaplum? I've got a peach tree that I'd like to graft nectaplum scions onto. Thanks for your informative videos! I'm in the middle of the city, but I still use permaculture techniques and installed an edible/smokable garden in my front yard.

[@TheBusyGardener]

Hello! I think I got this Nectaplum from a now closed nursery in Upland, CA. That said, you can see where it's being sold by going to DaveWilson.com and clicking their "where to buy" button. Good luck out there!

[@johanconradie2120]

I have several PEACHNECPRUNEPLUMCOTCHERAL multigrafts here

[@gardentips1249]

Basically tastes like a white nectarine but sometimes my brain detects a hint of plum haha

[@TheAstonp]

so jealous from uk

[@blackkennedy3966]

I’m gonna try to grow some seeds of this thing and see what I get. I’m also gonna breed it with a tropical beauty.

[@TheBusyGardener]

Fruit roulette! It's amazing how very intentional cross pollination brings such great new varieties.

[@blackkennedy3966]

@@TheBusyGardener yeah it’s amazing what you can get when you mix things together, I’m very happy with this tree and I just got a new peach tree so I’m exited to experiment a bit maybe create a new variety. I’m also growing different types of guavas and pomegranates and are going to start with cherimoya soon aswell. Lots to do!

[@gardentips1249]

@@blackkennedy3966 I let some apricot seeds grow and the tree finally fruited first time last year. Fruit was delicious. They were seeds from my Blenheim apricot and Cotton Candy aprium, I believe a cross of the two because it's more like a blenheim but not completely.

[@blackkennedy3966]

@@gardentips1249 cool my seeds rotted last season and this season I forgot to harvest pollen so I’m just gonna grow the individual plants from seed instead of the hybrids like I planned Oh well. At least the nectaplum is already a hybrid by itself so I wonder what I’ll get from the spice zee.

[@gardentips1249]

@@blackkennedy3966 Still could be open pollinated by other trees nearby so could be a hybrid or self pollinated backcross. Either way I'm sure it'll grow some tasty fruit eventually. Can always graft a tree later as well

[@LuisRamos-qk6ks]

What is your pruning style for the Spice Zee?

[@TheBusyGardener]

Mainly am open center pruning, and keeping the multi planted neighbors in mind.

[@LuisRamos-qk6ks]

@@TheBusyGardener Awesome, thanks.

[@joem2745]

I bought and planted what I thought was a peach tree this spring. It completely matches your description of a nectaplum though. Must have been mislabeled.

[@TheBusyGardener]

You could do a lot worse than a Spice Zee!!

[@CaMT888]

My Spice Zee is on the 2nd year in the ground but it is languishing for some reason. Leaves are half the size of yours and fruits were the size of golf balls. I had maybe a dozen golf balls. What should I do? I did fertilize with iv organics and chicken manures at spring time. I am baffled. Clay soil 9b

[@TheBusyGardener]

I would check your watering. How much sun does it get?

[@CaMT888]

@@TheBusyGardener it gets plenty of sun and water too. The peach and pear trees 4-5ft away are both thriving so I don’t know. It could be the clay soil. I amended it last year, I am going to try amending much more this year

[@Homegardener55]

How old is this tree from planting, or rather what year was it planted

[@TheBusyGardener]

Was planted in spring of 2015!

[@Homegardener55]

@@TheBusyGardener awesome! Just ordered mine online, do you know what rootstock?

[@afrocraft1]

What's a reasonable size assumption for this tree, please?

[@TheBusyGardener]

The eventual size, unpruned? That depends on what rootstock it's grafted onto. For me, I keep them pruned much lower than any eventual height, no higher than I can reach

[@afrocraft1]

@@TheBusyGardener Pruned, please. I have space only for 8x8 feet. Is there a dwarf rootstock?

[@TheBusyGardener]

@@afrocraft1 Unless you intend to let your tree grow unpruned, choose a rootstock that is adapted for your soil type, over choosing one for dwarfing habits. YOU determine the size of the tree through pruning! :)

[@lessycurls]

How many fruit trees do you have in your orcbard?

[@TheBusyGardener]

About 80 or so trees, vines, and canes, give or take

[@lessycurls]

@@TheBusyGardener wow. How much space you allocate for those trees?

[@matthewfarrell317]

Oh god, what are you doing to me lol. I had the choice between the Spice Zee or the Sugar N Spice, I went with the sugar one because of the name lol. Guess we just have to wait and see. Worse case, I graft on a Spice Zee onto the Sugar N Spice lol

[@baomichael]

Tell me how’s yours I’ll trade you scions I have nectaplum and others

[@manuelperalta9364]

Lol those are Green June Bugs not Japanese Beetles. Japanese Beetles are smaller and have a copper colored back.

[@TheBusyGardener]

+Manuel Peralta 100% correct! And here I've been correcting my kids when they call them June bugs

[@davidjamgochian]

19 Acre's

[@sportsonwheelss]

nectaplum?

[@TheBusyGardener]

YES! It's been intentionally cross pollinated between fruit in the same genus, and is has parentage from nectarine and plum. The process is doing what bees would naturally be doing in nature, but doing it in a systematic, controlled way. And it's GOOD!

[@toosense]

Kinda thinking you should light a candle and wear a robe when you go in for your taste test.

[@TheBusyGardener]

This is going into the idea list and the Amazon wishlist simultaneously. 😂

[@toosense]

@@TheBusyGardener you're welcome! Lol

[@idahofishgamer3560]

Trim your tree

[@JoseGarcia-uo5qz]

There not Japanese beetles. There june bugs

[@TheBusyGardener]

You're correct

[@JoseGarcia-uo5qz]

And in there larval stage there very yummy and nutritious

[@TheBusyGardener]

@@JoseGarcia-uo5qz I'll save you some...lol

[@JoseGarcia-uo5qz]

Hell yeah im game

[@user-it6xr7dr3d]

Сам жрёт, а мне не даёт, негодяй(((

[@tonyd6853]

This is an invasive species. lol

[@TheBusyGardener]

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