i live live in canada and i have a plum tree which i never knew about the tree never sprouted plums till this t=year it died a couple of yeares ago and came back. some one told me i had a Klamath plum or a Oregon plum . how do i prune it so i get the best chance of it sprouting again and when are they ready to pick you know be cause there about 1-2cm bid and there not getting bigger and alot are falling off the tree. when should i pick them and how do i prune them to get the best tasting plum
Is your plum a type that doesn't turn red when ripened and you pick them early ? I'm asking this because my plum tree has some fruits that started turning red/yellow(it will be totally in red once ripened). Not quite ripe yet, but I want to pick them before birds eat them, however, not sure if picking them when they're still not fully in red and leaving them for a while to ripen them works.
@lostinxlation Plums vary widely and ripen different colours and different times, like other cultivated fruits. These particular plums (we believe they are Warwickshire Drooper but are unsure, grafted from an unknown tree) turn from green to yellow as they ripen, and when perfectly ripe (just before going squashy!) they develop little red spots.
You have to study your own fruits and learn from them. Microclimate, soil and season all have a part to play as well as the genetics of the variety
plumbs are one of the few trees i dont have to spray with fungicide (copper sulfate) or insecticide (canola oil or rapeseed oil mix). they seem in the states at least were we grow santa rosa and satsuma to be very robust compared to say apples or pears. you can't grow pears organically here ex the asian pears as they are so disease prone. most growers use antibiotics on pears.
do you have to spray your plumbs and if so what is your spraying regime.
@telemarker77 Hi. We have some disease problems with plums, especially something called bacterial plum canker whcih kills trees. We have to spray against plum moth caterpillar, we use a pheremone trap to detect them and then hit with insecticide after that.
haha you cant even notice the gummyosis on the first plum DICK
Bresson92 3 months ago
I have just picked a good 1/2 a Tesco bag of wild plums from a tree that I know of up the road. Can't wait to make jam from them!!!
Nice plums *coughs*
CelticReject 7 months ago
sorry for my ignorance are plums safe to eat when you find them on the ground?
HandsomeSasquatch 8 months ago
i live live in canada and i have a plum tree which i never knew about the tree never sprouted plums till this t=year it died a couple of yeares ago and came back. some one told me i had a Klamath plum or a Oregon plum . how do i prune it so i get the best chance of it sprouting again and when are they ready to pick you know be cause there about 1-2cm bid and there not getting bigger and alot are falling off the tree. when should i pick them and how do i prune them to get the best tasting plum
MichaelLarson29 1 year ago
Is your plum a type that doesn't turn red when ripened and you pick them early ? I'm asking this because my plum tree has some fruits that started turning red/yellow(it will be totally in red once ripened). Not quite ripe yet, but I want to pick them before birds eat them, however, not sure if picking them when they're still not fully in red and leaving them for a while to ripen them works.
lostinxlation 1 year ago
@lostinxlation Plums vary widely and ripen different colours and different times, like other cultivated fruits. These particular plums (we believe they are Warwickshire Drooper but are unsure, grafted from an unknown tree) turn from green to yellow as they ripen, and when perfectly ripe (just before going squashy!) they develop little red spots.
You have to study your own fruits and learn from them. Microclimate, soil and season all have a part to play as well as the genetics of the variety
crazymanstephen 1 year ago
This sort of plum looks like a Greengage to me. Check it on wikipedia. Regards.
maraxxl 1 year ago
nice plumb tree.
plumbs are one of the few trees i dont have to spray with fungicide (copper sulfate) or insecticide (canola oil or rapeseed oil mix). they seem in the states at least were we grow santa rosa and satsuma to be very robust compared to say apples or pears. you can't grow pears organically here ex the asian pears as they are so disease prone. most growers use antibiotics on pears.
do you have to spray your plumbs and if so what is your spraying regime.
thanks for sharing.
telemarker77 2 years ago
@telemarker77 Hi. We have some disease problems with plums, especially something called bacterial plum canker whcih kills trees. We have to spray against plum moth caterpillar, we use a pheremone trap to detect them and then hit with insecticide after that.
stephenhayesuk 1 year ago
Plums, sir Plums
Thx1138d 1 year ago
Five Stars!!
MadBadVoodo 2 years ago
I dont know how you are able to manage an orchard while having a day job, the workload must be exhausting.
mcgrimes 2 years ago
Plums are so delicious! They remind me of my mother...she makes the BEST plum jelly. :)
Octahoney 2 years ago