{"id":10767,"date":"2020-06-26T13:28:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=10767"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:55:23","slug":"thank-you-floyd-zaiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/thank-you-floyd-zaiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Floyd Zaiger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I never met the man, but Floyd Zaiger made my yard taste better. I grow some of his apriums, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davewilson.com\/product-information\/product\/cot-n-candy-white-aprium-interspecific-apricot\">Cot-N-Candy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cot-N-Candy-aprium-1024x846.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10774\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.210161662817552;width:384px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cot-N-Candy-aprium-980x810.jpg 980w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cot-N-Candy-aprium-480x397.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cot-N-Candy aprium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve got a tree of his nectaplum, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davewilson.com\/product-information\/product\/spice-zee-nectaplum-interspecific-nectarine\">SpiceZee<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"866\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SpiceZee-nectaplums-866x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10775\" style=\"width:411px;height:485px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">SpiceZee nectaplums.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve got his cherry for warm-winter places like Southern California, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davewilson.com\/product-information\/product\/royal-crimson-cherry\">Royal Crimson<\/a>. I&#8217;ve got some of his Pride peaches, such as the reliable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davewilson.com\/product-information\/product\/mid-pride-peach\">Mid-Pride<\/a>. And I grow pluots. My daughter is eating a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davewilson.com\/product-information-commercial\/product\/dapple-dandy-pluot-interspecific-plum\">Dapply Dandys<\/a> at the top of the page, but my own all around favorite is Zaiger&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davewilson.com\/product-information\/product\/flavor-king-pluot-interspecific-plum\">Flavor King<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To me, Floyd Zaiger was the Flavor King. He mixed and matched apricots and plums, nectarines and plums, plums and apricots, in order to reach new heights of eating pleasure: texture on top of taste on top of all varieties that came before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He called his company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davewilson.com\/product-information-general\/about-zaiger-genetics\">Zaiger Genetics<\/a>, but all he was doing was taking the pollen from one flower and touching it to the pistil of another. This is something a bee could have done. This was not genetic modification or genetic engineering. This was traditional plant breeding. Watch the process at Zaigers explained in this video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zaiger Hybrids: The Future of Fruit\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ixLdH8d1nNo?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Floyd Zaiger passed away earlier this month, on June 2. He was 94 years old. He leaves his company in the hands of children and grandchildren who have been working beside him for decades. We\u2019re sure to continue seeing new varieties of stone fruit arrive from the Zaigers through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davewilson.com\/\">Dave Wilson Nursery<\/a>, their exclusive wholesale grower in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I fell in love with Zaiger\u2019s pluots more than any of his other inventions, save perhaps the Bella Gold peacotum (peach, apricot, plum).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zaiger\u2019s pluots are the pinnacle of stone fruit. The have better crunch than most plums, they resist pests and diseases better than peaches and nectarines, some pluot varieties have a month-long harvest season, and they take the heat better than apricots. They also produce massively if you match the variety to your yard\u2019s climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dapple-Dandy-pluot-tree-heavy-crop-2019-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5942\" style=\"width:616px;height:461px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dapple-Dandy-pluot-tree-heavy-crop-2019-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dapple-Dandy-pluot-tree-heavy-crop-2019-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dapple-Dandy-pluot-tree-heavy-crop-2019-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fruitload on my Dapple Dandy pluot tree last summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pluots deserved a book written about them. Chip Brantley wrote it, and titled it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Perfect-Fruit-Breeding-Seeds-Elusive\/dp\/1596913819\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\">\u201cThe Perfect Fruit.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"925\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/book-about-pluots-925x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10768\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.908315565031983;width:378px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My copy of Chip Brantley&#8217;s book about pluots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Floyd Zaiger ended up in California\u2019s Central Valley after having been born in Nebraska in 1926. He served in the Army during World War II before earning a degree in plant pathology from the University of California at Davis. After Davis, Zaiger and his wife Betty earned their living by breeding and selling azaleas and rhododendrons before making a committed switch to fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zaiger had previously worked for Fred Anderson, who became well known for his contributions of new nectarines. And Anderson had previously worked for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luther_Burbank\">Luther Burbank<\/a>, a breeder of many types of plants including crosses of plums and apricots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Floyd Zaiger would go on to greatly improve the potential of plum-apricot crossings by backcrossing with plums to create what he called pluots. (A 50\/50 hybrid of plum and apricot is usually referred to as a plumcot.) A pluot is a piece of fruit with more plum than apricot in its pedigree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"863\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Splash-pluot-863x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10778\" style=\"width:370px;height:439px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Splash is an early-season Zaiger pluot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Flavor-Grenade-pluots-965x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5948\" style=\"width:451px;height:479px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flavor Grenade pluots get explosively sweet while remaining crisp in texture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let me return to the pluot that Zaiger named Flavor King. My grandma was visiting last summer when the Flavor King pluots on my tree were in season. My kids were hanging out by the tree much of the day and sharing fruit with their great grandmother. Then when it was time for her to drive home I noticed that she strolled back down to the Flavor King tree on her own to pick a few for the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"866\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/heavy-fruitset-on-Flavor-King-pluot-tree-866x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10769\" style=\"width:422px;height:499px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My Flavor King pluot tree last September.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Flavor-King-pluots-on-tree-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10771\" style=\"width:374px;height:499px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Flavor-King-pluots-on-tree-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Flavor-King-pluots-on-tree-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 768px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Flavor King pluots on my tree, up close.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple months later my grandma asked if I could help her plant a Flavor King pluot tree in her yard. Grandma has dozens of fruit trees; guavas to tangerines to pears to loquats to avocados to apples to plums; she\u2019s been growing fruit trees for longer than I\u2019ve been alive; yet she needed to add a Flavor King pluot. Thank you, Floyd Zaiger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More about Floyd Zaiger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modbee.com\/news\/business\/agriculture\/article243589442.html\">Obituary<\/a> in Zaiger&#8217;s local paper, the Modesto Bee, by John Holland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davewilson.com\/product-information-general\/zaiger-fruit\">List<\/a> of some fruit varieties that Floyd Zaiger created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xhW_ngcaQvM\">Video<\/a> of a Wednesday &#8220;Cream of the Crop&#8221; tour and tasting at Zaigers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is my post about <a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/growing-pluots-in-southern-california\/\">\u201cGrowing pluots in Southern California.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to you, the readers and Supporters of this website! You keep me writing and keep The Yard Posts ad-free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn how you can support\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/supporting-the-yard-posts\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A list with links to all of my Yard Posts is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/list-of-yard-posts\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never met the man, but Floyd Zaiger made my yard taste better. I grow some of his apriums, like Cot-N-Candy. I\u2019ve got a tree of his nectaplum, SpiceZee. I\u2019ve got his cherry for warm-winter places like Southern California, called Royal Crimson. I&#8217;ve got some of his Pride peaches, such as the reliable Mid-Pride. 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