Some of the best plums ever. These little yellowish/ white plums turn almost clear when their sugars have fully ripened to their greatest potential. The heavy bluish layer of bloom that gathers on the surface is similar to the Green Gage, but differs in all other fruit characteristics. The fruit is sweet, very juicy and full of a slightly tropical flavor. It seems they are true-to-type seedlings because 5 of these trees are closely planted together with identical characteristics. Ripens in late August at 2800.'

The grandmother tree is at 2800’ in a mixed Gillet homestead orchard in Camptonville, Yuba County, a vibrant mining town of the mid 1800s, still populated with many Gillet trees. Camptonville was also the home of Lester Pelton, who in 1870 invented the Pelton wheel. Lester changed the course of human evolution by inventing the device for making hydroelectric power. Remember the tune "Camptown ladies sing this song, doo dah, doo dah..."? That's Camptonville. Camptonville is a fascinating old mining camp, with many Gillet trees we will be propagating and introducing in the coming years.