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  • From: Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Do plum trees (specifically Mount Royal) tend towards beingbiennial ?
  • Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:12:19 -0400

Peter,
I also find my Mt-Royal quite irregular in cropping - it makes huges crops
about once in 4 years, some years of light to medium crops, other years of
almost no crop.
The crop also depends on the curculio pressure - Some years, there are many
flowers, but curculios get the most of the crop and the plums drop before
maturity - this even if I spray Surround. And other years, it's the racoons
that get the crop before I have time to harvest it!
2008 was a great year and I harvested 35 kg from this tree - I couldn't use
all of it! This year I got about 5 kg.

Claude Jolicoeur
Quebec

A 17:23 09.10.07 -0400, vous avez écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> Last year my Mount Royal had tons of very tasty fruit. This
>year there were only about 30 blossoms in the spring and no fruit made
>it to maturity.
> Do plum trees in general and Mount Royal in particular tend to be
>biennial? Thanks.
>
> Peter Drevniok, Gatineau, Quebec zone 4a
>




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