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  • From: "Needham Greg" <needhamgr@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org, hblack@twlakes.net
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Native plums
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:36:30 +0000

I have a couple of small seedling chickasaw plums around my place, plus one tree of a cultivar (called "Guthrie", I think) I got a few years ago from Mail Order Natives. The little ones are just to the point of having bloomed for the first time this spring, and the Guthrie tree has had a nice little crop of plums- its first year with fruit. We just ate the last few fruit, and they were very yellow inside and out and pretty good. No curculio damage (though I had plenty on my apples :-) This tree is really pretty, and so far shows no sign of suckering, rather it is making a decent single trunk. I love plums, but until now have only ever seen plums around here set huge crops only to rot every single fruit in a heartbreaking way. This makes me very excited about my chickasaw plums! Does anyone know other plums (or other Prunus spp. worth eating fresh) that can be grown in the southeast that will produce good, usable crops without spraying? I have thought about trying Jan/Joy/Joel for pie cherries.....
What about All Red and Hollywood for plums? Thanks-

Greg


From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: hector black <hblack@twlakes.net>,North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] Native plums
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:49:07 -0500

At 08:40 AM 6/18/2003 -0700, Hector wrote:
The only reliable fruiter we have is one I got some years ago called the "Wild Goose Plum". It seems to
be one of the natives. Tart red blush skin and yellow flesh that makes wonderful jam and not bad eating
if you don't mind the tart skin.
Only problem is sends up new trees for about 15 ft. around. I just graft them or
mow them.

As a kid, I remember picking buckets full of native plums(I'm fairly certain they were P.angustifolia) from thickets growing at the edge of old abandoned fields on the 800 acre farm behind the house I grew up in, where my dad ran beef cattle. There were some thickets that produced markedly better fruits than others - I remember one, in particular, that produced large(for the species) yellow-when-ripe fruits. They were the best. Yeah, there were some with curculio damage, but the majority were pretty clean.
Even a couple of thickets of what my dad called sloes - bitter fruits, but I'm not at all certain that they were actually P.spinosa - don't recall the leaves being noticeably different, but that's been better than 35 years ago. May have just been Chickasaw plums with poor fruit quality.
I'm saving pits from this clump in the orchard to spread around edges & small openings around the farm, and will probably dig and transplant some suckers to the proximity of some of the wildlife foodplots this winter.

Lucky



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