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- From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Beach Plum questions
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 08:36:01 -0500
I've never lost any Beach plums to winter kill, but don't think it has gotten below -35 here in the last 10 years. They do sucker & form a thicket very quickly so work great for wild plantings, for more formal orchard spacing the suckers would have to be kept up with. Also a large percentage of the fruit becomes mummified before becoming ripe, probably because I do have mine in a thicket & the air circulation is not good. Fruit extremely astringent.
~mIEKAL
What are the best plums for putting up wine in a northern climate?
On Jul 6, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:
As I mentioned in an earlier post, my Winter received over an inch of
rain added to the snow so the snow pack had little insulative properties.
I had 24 Beach Plum bushes and two of them proved to be hardier than the
others. These two bloomed producing fruit.
Question No. 1: There are no crescent shaped marks on the plums; do
Curcullios not like Beach Plum?
Question No. 2: If all continues as is, I could get a handful of plums.
Hopefully it is not too early to ask; does anyone want seed from bushes that
thrive after -38 F.
Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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[NAFEX] Beach Plum questions,
Jim Fruth, 07/06/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Beach Plum questions,
mIEKAL aND, 07/06/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Beach Plum questions, Lon J. Rombough, 07/06/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Beach Plum questions,
mIEKAL aND, 07/06/2009
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