Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

nafex - [nafex] Black Knot & Mount Royal Plum, and others

nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: dwoodard@becon.org
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Black Knot & Mount Royal Plum, and others
  • Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 09:25:38 -0000

In response to John Bunker's message #4794 or 3 October:

I would be most interested to know how Mount Royal compares with
other European plums in the matter of susceptibility to black knot.
I understand that there are some areas (southeastern New Brunswick?)
where European plums are hardly grown because of black knot problems.
It is also a question that affects the ability of casual growers
(typical garden centre patrons) who don't know much about details and
may not be too interested in learning, to grow European plum at all
(supposing they can survive the curculio; this seems to depend a
great deal on local environment).

If Mr. Bunker has the time, I think this topic would make a great
article for the Pomona.

Does anyone know of any existing studies of the susceptibility of
different cultivars to black knot?

My personal knowledge is limited to having seen why Green Gage has
such a bad reputation for black knot, and having seen that Veeblue
(otherwise a great mass market European plum, tremendously productive
and of reliably pleasant although not outstanding quality on sandy
loam in the Niagara Peninsula) is markedly more susceptible even than
Stanley.

Douglas Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario


-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~>
Get FREE long-distance phone calls on Tellme!
Click here for the scoop:
http://click.egroups.com/1/9531/15/_/423498/_/970737943/
---------------------------------------------------------------------_->






  • [nafex] Black Knot & Mount Royal Plum, and others, dwoodard, 10/05/2000

Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page