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  • From: Jwlehman@aol.com
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  • Subject: [NAFEX] Early Blooming plums--Bee Feeders
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:31:35 EST

P. cerasifera, (Myro plum) blooms very early, way ahead of apple and earlier than peach. They flower profusely and over a longer period of time than cherries for example. The plums ripen early, the earliest variety ripens the first week of July here in central Indiana, zone 5b.

These plums are more hardy and more disease resistant than Apricots which also bloom early.

There are improved varieties available now that were bred at Krymsk Russia by Dr. Gennadiy Eremin. Two nurseries that carry them are Hidden Springs and Raintree. Hidden springs has them listed by the original test designators under which they were imported. Raintree Nursery has them trade named.

Here they start to bloom the first and second week of April. Because they bloom over a long period of time, frost usually doesn't delete the entire crop and sometime helps thin them because they tend to overbear. Most years they need be thinned to obtain good sized fruit. 

Jerry     


  • [NAFEX] Early Blooming plums--Bee Feeders, Jwlehman, 01/22/2005

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