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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Plums
  • Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:48:23 -0500

At 02:31 PM 8/25/2006, Mark wrote:

In terms of the Auburn varieties, AU Rosa,  AU Roadside, and AU Rubrum are all very resistant to black knot, brown rot, canker, leaf and fruit spot.  All are self-pollinating and as a general rule Japanese plum trees are smaller and more precocious than Europeans. 

My Japanese hybrids were purchased as members of the AU series - but!!!  I got them from the infamous TyTy Nursery, before I knew what low-life scumbags those folks are, so I can't even be sure that they're even a grafted selection, much less the varieties I ordered.  Still have (alleged) AU Homeside and Rubrum living(Roadside and Amber were the typical dead sticks TyTy usually supplies), and while I don't recall seeing any black knot on them - the few times they have had any fruit survive the routine late winter/early spring frosts/freezes, brown rot got them all.
I'm still waiting for Green Gage and Peach European plums to bloom - they've been in the ground 10-12 years.

Lucky


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