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[Richard Tripp <rtripp@u.washington.edu>]

I picked my GreenGage today. A reasonable crop but not too large (as
usual).  Since I make preserves out of it, I am quite happy with the
variety.  It gets a touch of Brown Rot, but not as bad as Damson, which
is right next to it.  If you do not delay picking you are in good shape
with the crop.  I have recently picked Early Laxton and Shiro which were
bumper crops.  Kirkes Blue should ripen soon.  It is a shy producer but
very nice for eating. The rest of my plums are yet to come.  Should be a
good year.  Kind of surprising, since I only had two days of 32F, but
quite a few days in the 40's.  One of my better years.

Dick  Woodway, WA  zone 8 near the Sound.

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, dwalsh/wchase wrote:

> Lon,
> 
> I agree absolutely about Greengage plum.  I'm going to delete my tree this 
> year.
> Greengage is very susceptible to disease(s) in rainy PNW.  I'm also having 
> second
> thoughts about Bradshaw.  And I'm running out of patience waiting for 
> Italian
> Prune and Victoria to fruit.  On both IP and Victoria I have lots of 
> blossoms, but
> no fruit.  They bloom at about the same time and both are supposed to be
> self-fertile.  Now maybe my Victoria is not really a Victoria ... maybe 
> it's a
> Japanese plum and that's why no fruit on either 'Victoria' or IP.
> 
> The plum I grafted as a Stanley has turned out to be a Methley!!  Stanley 
> would
> have bloomed at the same time as IP and is a good pollenizer.
> 
> The Stanley/Methley is very heavily loaded with fruit and bears every year. 
>  It
> took me about four years from planting to realize that it was not a 
> Stanley, and
> another three years to identify it as a Methley.
> 
> Another heavy bearer in my orchard is Early Gold (Japanese) ... not quite 
> ripe as
> I write.
> 
> Part of the problem is cold wet weather at bloom time.   This year the 
> early and
> mid-season plum bloomers got great weather, but the late bloomers shivered.
> 
> However, it's been a great raspberry (Tulameen), tayberry, black currant 
> (Black
> Reward), red currant (Jonkheer van Tets), and blueberry (Olympia and 
> Norland)
> season.
> 
> Derry
> 
> Derry Walsh & Bill Chase  email:wchase@interchange.ubc.ca
> Aldergrove,  B. C.,  Canada
> phone/fax (604) 856-9316
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> : In most texts, authors rave about green gage plums.  I'm grown a number of
> : them over the years and frankly, I've not been impressed.    On top of 
> that, the
> fruit was more
> : susceptible to brown rot and cracking than regular Prunus domestica.    
> Am I
> : missing something, or is my taste just at odds with that of the people who
> : write about them?
> : -Lon Rombough
> :
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