Empress
large late blue prune
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- -28°F
- Ripening
- Late-season
- Vigor
- Moderate-Vigorous
- Disease tolerance
- Low
- Drainage need
- Well
- Soil pH
- 6–7
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Available
Considerations
Wood hardy to about -28°F.
Late-season harvest.
Low overall resistance across the stonefruit pathogens.
Canopy susceptible to brown rot, the dominant stonefruit disease.
moderate-vigorous
Prefers a pH band of 6–7.
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Climate-adapted alternatives
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similar winter hardiness · similar chilling need
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similar winter hardiness · similar chilling need
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