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  • From: Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [nafex] European plums & black-knot (cv. President vs Imperial Epineuse/D'Agen)
  • Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:59:03 -0500 (EST)



I'm planting the self-fertile, highly disease-resistant (including black-knot
resistant) variety of European plum (P. x domestica) known as 'NY-9' (aka
'Kenmore).
For a second plum - a purple-fruited variety, I'd like to go with either
Imperial Epineuse or D'Agen. However, President would be my second-choice,
right after 'NY-9' for the sake of disease-resistance. I live in the
northeast (NJ).
Do you think I'd be better-off planting President and then, latter,
top-grafting with the better-tasting Imperial Epineuse (or maybe D'Agen; aka
D'Ente/707)? I figure that if the top-grafted variety starts exhibiting
high-susceptibilty to black-knot, then I can cut it back to the President
variety which it the understock and frame.
Or would I be better-off just getting the better desired variety (Imperial
Epineuse) and just keeping my eye out for black-knot, pruning it off. One
note is that if I just get a grafted tree of Imperial Epineuse, I would steep
the graft union and get it on its own roots; however, if on President - there
will be a graft-union between the President under-stock/frame and the
top-grafted second variety, a point into which borers may enter, being that
there will be a graft-union. Sometimes, albeit rarely, the graft-union can
get black-knot also.
Lastly, does anyone have an opinion as to wether the larger, freestone
Imperial Epineuse is better then the more internationally utilized
clingstone, smaller D'Agen (aka D'Ente/707 selection)?
Thanks,
Steve - NJ





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