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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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1-877-265-6856 (Toll Free)
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