To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Asian/American Plums
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:30:10 -0600
"Superior I
had grafted the previous spring and it produced an abundance of fruits
only one year later. "
Oh, this is something I didn't find out till after I had done the grafts.
These Jap Am plum hybrids bloom on new wood, so I will get the opportunity
(if the weather cooperates) to evaluate them next year. That is a really
big incentive to try the whole set. Can you bag plums the way you all have
been doing apples? I sewed a Euro plum branch into a net curtain last year
and hung it up on a nearby branch to keep the weight of the curtain and
fruit from hanging it to the ground. It worked, though I think the fruit
might have ripened better if the tree had less shade on it. Just fixed that
problem 2 days ago. Donna