To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Plum Question
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:33:37 -0400
Robert C. Mullins wrote:
Tasted a plum, it was delicious, saved the seed. And now the big
question, if I plant it, will it grow true?
About the same chance as winning the lottery.
If the plum was a wild plum (unimproved by breeding or selection), then
the seed might produce a tree with very similar fruit. Since you say it
was delicious, I'm going to assume it was pretty far from a wild fruit.