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  • From: Rosholdt <rosholdt@erols.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Plum incompatble with apricot? - a story
  • Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:58:19 -0400

Martha,

I really think they were talking about pollination, but your message gives me pause. We had a really fierce winter this year in central Virginia with the typical 80 degree days in January, followed by nasty cold weather, then it began to let up in early March, then came three nights with 6 degree F temps. I had weird stuff happen in the orchard. I went out to prune and found chunks of bark missing from branches (like a sudden freeze "blow-out" I've heard about but never seen). One was so bad, the branch was girdled and that part of the tree was dead.

I have had trees die this year and am still having trees die. Two pears, Collette and Seckel (fireblight), two seedling persimmons, and my Ichi Kei Ki Jeiro (it leafed out, bloomed, then sudden wilt and death - very strange). One was the Harglow Apricot I had planted between two (scary music) Plums, a purple leafed plum from Edible Landscaping and a 1ER Russian plum from Hidden Springs Nursery, TN. I am not sure how these plums, which appear healthy (except for the severe blowout mentioned above on the 1ER Plum could possibly have contributed to the Apricot's demise. I have examined the tree, and couldn't find anything untoward. I'll dig it up soon and see if the roots are damaged, but it doesn't "wiggle".

Barbara Rosholdt
Z7a



  • Re: [NAFEX] Plum incompatble with apricot? - a story, Rosholdt, 07/05/2009

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