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- From: "dwalsh/wchase" <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca>
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- Subject: Re: [nafex] Italian Plum
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 09:09:27 -0700
Tom,
In my experience, Italian Prune is poor at branching in early years. It is
also
very slow-to-bear and I even question whether it is self-fertile (as books
say)
Stanley is early-to-bear, branches well, and is self-fertile.
I think the Italian Plum has the best flavour of all the plums I've eaten,
but my
tree is five years old and has yet to produce a plum. It had blossoms at four
years of age, but no plums (? self-fertile). This year is has hundreds of
blossoms, but I'll have to see if I get fruit.
I have a four-year-old Early Italian which has not fruited yet ... it has a
few
blossoms last year and many more this year.
I have about six other European plums in same area blooming at same time so I
should have a pollenizer, and I have lots of Blue Orchard bees plus some
honeybees.
These plums have the advantage of flowering late so they miss most of the
spring
frosts.
Derry
Derry Walsh & Bill Chase email:wchase@interchange.ubc.ca
Aldergrove, B. C., Canada
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:
... They had two varieties 1) Stanley, and 2) Italian. The Stanley's had good
: lateral branching, but the ones labeled Italian just seemed to be a huge
whips,
1" diameter trunk, and about 8' tall. Is this normal behavior for an
: Italian plum?
: : Thanks,
: Tom
: --
: Thomas Olenio
: Ontario, Canada
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