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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Some European plums will come fairly true to seed.  Green Gage types have long been grown from seed in various places.
I've grown plums from seed and have gotten a good percentage of trees that had decent quality fruit even if it wasn't the same as the parent.  The main defect is that a very high percentage of seedlings have smaller fruit than the parent.
-Lon Rombough
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On Jul 31, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Steve wrote:

Robert C. Mullins wrote:
> Tasted a plum, it was delicious, saved the seed.  And now the big 
> question, if I plant it, will it grow true?
About the same chance as winning the lottery.
If the plum was a wild plum (unimproved by breeding or selection), then 
the seed might produce a tree with very similar fruit. Since you say it 
was delicious, I'm going to assume it was pretty far from a wild fruit.

Steve


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