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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Please advise: Thinning plums

Shaking IS a way to thin.  Don't overdo it on Hollywood, though.  It's a very nice plum, but you pick it within minutes after it ripens.  That's not much of an exaggeration.  I've seen it go from firm to so soft the stem end pulled out like a cone in one day, and it was mush on the ground shortly after that.  
-Lon Rombough
> From: "Moyer, Richard" <ramoyer@king.edu>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 15:34:03 -0400 
> To: "'nafex@lists.ibiblio.org'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Please advise: Thinning plums

> Our Hollywood purple leaf plum has been in about 8 years and routinely
> freezes, we've only eaten 1 plum in this time.
>
> Since last freeze was in late March, after this tree bloomed, it's now
> loaded with fruit from pea to black olive size.  Limbs are bending with
> hundreds of plums per limb.
>
> Lacking experience with plums, we need advice on efficient thinning for one
> tree.
>
> How far apart should each fruit be when done?
> Can I grab the limb and shake severely at this stage, at least to get
> started?
>  
> Ideas and experience appreciated.
>
> Richard Moyer
> Zone 6, East Tenn
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