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["Bruce Wittchen" <herenorthere@lycos.com>]

If those plums were tomatoes, I'd say it happened because the trees ran dry 
and then got a good soaking.  But that happens to my plums and I've never 
seen a crack.  Maybe the little European plums I grow are less susceptible.  
By the way, was the original Green Gage a real gage (small fruit)?  The green 
plums sold in our groceries aren't gages.
Bruce Wittchen
1/2 mile outside Hartford, CT

> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:29:54 -0400
> From: "Gene Spears" <Spears@LMC.edu>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Plum cracking

>    For the first time, I'm getting some plums off of a number of my trees - 
> Red Heart, Superior, and Kanga (sp?).  Most of the plums on all the trees 
> are cracked - split skin, some leaking.  Any cultural techniques that I can 
> use to reduce this problem?
> 
> As an aside, I have one seedling tree from a Green Gage fruit I bought in 
> the supermarket that is also fruiting for the first time.  No signs of 
> cracking on this one, so far.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> gene
> 
> spears@lmc.edu
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