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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 07:29 AM 8/11/2004 -0700, Mark wrote:
> Does
> anyone in NAFEX grow beach plums in an environment that is not near the
> beach?

I've got two seedling beach plums that I purchased from Ken Asmus at
OIKOS Tree Crops, several years ago.  Planted along the edge of my
orchard, close to the European & Japanese hybrid plums, though I
don't recall if their bloom periods overlap.  I'm probably 500-600
miles from a beach, discounting the swimming beach I made at the farm
pond a hundred feet away from these beach plums.
The two bushes I've got are quite disparate in size - one's about 3 ft
tall, the other at least 6 ft.  No problem with brown rot or any
other disease/pest(that I've noticed), and they're not (yet) suckering -
if that's a trait of the species.  I have a good clay soil, and
these are located in a spot with good drainage, but definitely not a
beach setting.  
They set and matured a good crop of fruit last year - small, but tasty,
and many just dried up on the plants after ripening, almost like raisins,
without dropping.

Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY