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

At 10:06 PM 5/20/2005, Donna wrote:
> After all, if you have waited 10 years and have a
> nice big tree, it seems silly to chop it down and start over with another
> tree.
> P.S.  Lucky, I suppose you have considered ringing it?  What are the chances
> of something getting in the wound if he does, like Blackknot?

Oh, I'm not gonna chop it down - I'll treat it just like the peaches & 
pluots and hope that a borer or gummosis will strike and take it out.  If I 
recall correctly it(or maybe it was one of the other plums) has some black 
knot - minor infection - and I pruned most of it off last year.
Maybe I'll just threaten it every time I pass it on the way to the 
mulberries or the nursery beds, and see what it does.

Lucky