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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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