Plum is adaptable, warm, heat-resistant, China's "three furnaces" city (i.e., Wuhan, Nanjing, Chongqing) are planted plum, Guangzhou, Haikou is also cultivated. Plum blossom on the soil requirements, to deep soil, low water table, good drainage conditions, loose topsoil, subsoil slightly clay soil is good. Shallow soil or too loose soil, plum trees are susceptible to drought damage; water retention capacity is too strong clay soil, plum trees are prone to root rot. Soil pH to slightly acidic optimal (that is, pH 6 or so), but the plum can also grow in slightly alkaline soil or barren soil. Plum avoid stagnant water, poor growth in poorly drained soil, waterlogged for a few days will be yellow leaves and root rot death. Plum flowers like sunlight, shade is poor growth and sparse flowering. Plum like higher air humidity, but also tolerate dryness, so in China can be cultivated in the north and south. Plum strong branching force, dormant buds long life, so plum pruning resistance, suitable for cut flower cultivation and cultivation of stumps. The length of the flowering branches of plum varies, long flowering branches and long branches with sparse flowering, so the bunch of flowering branches and short flowering branches of plum varieties bloom densely.

The flowering period of plum is greatly affected by temperature. After the formation of flower buds need a period of cool weather into dormancy, the dormant flower buds in the warmer temperatures before the development of open, open time and temperature and effective cumulative temperature related to the plum flower can be used to control the temperature to catalyze the delayed flowering period.