I use a fungicide to stop them from rotting so that I can let them get treeSeems like there is a variety of opinions on how to ripen plums.
ripe. Not the French but the several I grow, including Castleton and
Valor, the two I most recommend here in the southern NY area. I would
never want to harvest any plum before it obtains full sweet richness of
tree ripe, that is what growing them should be about as far as I'm
concerned. When people taste my plums they are amazed that such a fruit
even exists- it is that different from industrial plums picked hard and
sour.
I find I get adequate protection from rot here in the humid northeast with
something like Monterey Fungus Fighter (I use something packaged for
commercial growers called Indar) applied once about a month before fruit
begins to ripen. That way I can't "taste" the fungicide but the tree
ripens without rotting.
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