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  • From: list@ginda.us
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Plums
  • Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:27:36 -0400

Okay, I'll stand up for purchased cultivars. My uncle, in upstate Ny (the catskills, zone 4/5) grew plums for several years. All of his were purchased, and most did well, a few did very well. He gave away plums to all of his neighbors for years. He didn't treat with anything, just let the brown-rot-infected and curlicue plums drop and tossed them into a nearby (non plum) hedge. They all eventually succumbed to black knot, which had been a minor disease until a bad drought, after which most of the trees were severely infected, and the rest died a few years later. I suspect it was the stress of the drought, but it could also be a coincidence.

Ginda

On Aug 25, 2006, at 11:46 PM, tanis grif wrote:

I add another testamonial for the local wild plums! List recently had a string
about trying to ID the species, and I'm ashamed to say I don't recall what we have
here in south-central WI, z4-5. But so tastey they are in the "Is this legal?!"
group. Fairly reliable bearing & versatile-- jelly, jam, wine. BUT, also reliably
spreading via root suckering.


--- Lucky Pittman <> wrote:

Same here in KY. I've given up anticipating any
edible fruits from the half-dozen or so European
& Japanese hybrid plums I planted when we first
started our home orchard, 12 years ago.
I've got a number of native P.angustifolia -
Chickasaw plums - that I 'rescued' out of the
cowpasture, and just sort of plunked 'em down in
a spot in the orchard - originally to use as
rootstocks - which I later learned was a mistake,
as they sucker like crazy; but, they're very
reliable with regard to fruit production -
they're not large fruits, but at least they
produce a good crop, almost every year. Yes,
they do get brown rot, but not to the extent that
it hits the cultivated varieties - there's
usually more than I can/will eat out-of-hand, and
even curculio damage rarely amounts to anything
much more than a little spot, with a bit of clear
goo excreted to seal the defect.
Subsequently, I've received scionwood and grafted
several copies of the 'Guthrie' selection of
P.angustifolia from a fellow NAFEXer, and have
collected and grafted selections from local productive Chickasaw plum thickets.




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