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Pembina vs Seedling Plum Seeds
Seeds from a named plum cultivar or from a collection of small, sweet seedling plums. Compare the parent fruit and origins; neither seed source produces identical trees.
Pembina Field Note · August 2026
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Pembina is a hybrid of Japanese Plum (Prunus salicina) and Canada Wild Plum (Prunus nigra) introduced by the South Dakota Experiment Station in 1917. These seeds were collected from a local orchard in southern Manitoba.
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Seedling Plum seeds are collected in Manitoba from trees with small, sweet plums about 1 inch across and thick skins. These trees appear to descend from cultivated plums, possibly crossed with wild plums, but their parentage is not known.
Photos and fruit descriptions refer to the seed parents. These are seeds, not cloned plants; seedlings vary.
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Growing details
| Detail | Pembina plum seeds | Seedling plum seeds |
|---|---|---|
| Fruit size | About 1½ to 2 in | About 1 in |
| Seed parent background | Named hybrid cultivar, normally preserved by grafting; these are its seeds | Unidentified seedling plums, possibly from cultivated plums crossed with wild plums |
| Cold hardiness zone | 3 | 3 |
| Seed source | Manitoba | Manitoba |
| Stratification | 1 to 2 months warm, followed by 4 to 6 months cold | 1 to 2 months warm, followed by 4 to 6 months cold |
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Pembina plum seeds
Pembina is a hybrid of Japanese Plum (Prunus salicina) and Canada Wild Plum (Prunus nigra) introduced by the South Dakota Experiment Station in 1917. These seeds were collected from a local orchard in southern Manitoba.
Seedlings will vary in growth, fruit size, flavour, and other traits while carrying Pembina's cold hardy genetics. They can be evaluated for new fruit qualities or used as rootstock for grafting other plums.
Seedling plum seeds
Seedling Plum seeds are collected in Manitoba from trees with small, sweet plums about 1 inch across and thick skins. These trees appear to descend from cultivated plums, possibly crossed with wild plums, but their parentage is not known.
Unlike our American and Canada Wild Plum seeds, this is not an identified wild species. Expect variation in the trees grown from these seeds, including fruit size, flavour and ripening time. The photos show fruit from earlier collections.
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