Fabulous, mine here are starting to ripen. My Nancy does not turn bright yellow like your Parfum du Septembre. But the aroma is just as strong and the taste is the sweetest of all of the plums I know!!! I hope you love them too!
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I have a deadly beetle. It is attacking all of my trees. And I thought I had no problems. I have only sprayed copper. Now I have three sprays (four including copper) and larvae to spread. Yikes! They attack peaches, plums and apricots. The trees I have the most of. Oh brother. You can run, but you can’t hide!
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Do you grow your plum tree in container? I’m beginning to doubt they will give me any fruit.
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Have never seen that before. I have only seen parasitoid wasps at work on my plum trees last year.
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So sorry to hear about the new pest you are having. That is awful. Hope the spray works.
Make sure you know the pre harvest interval so you know when it is safe to harvest your fruit. I had to let one pear varieties overripe because I needed to spray and the PHI was 14 days, way after they ripened. Lost all of that variety. That’s the problem with multi grafted fruit trees. Fruit do not ripen at the same time.
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Yes every year my mirabelle has many plums! My Quetch d’Alsace is new this year so I expect no plums until next year. I will re-pot the Quetche this fall. All of my potted trees fruit. The pots are very large.
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This was all a surprise to me! It usually takes 3-4 years before the pests find you, but they will. I would rather have 1 insect v/s 5. I will now need a sprayer. The sprays are not that expensive, thank goodness!
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Thanks, I will try to graft some on my Emerald Beauty, it’s in a 20 gallon container, I thought that’s big enough.
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It is!
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Since we are talking about diseases and pest, here is a relatively new disease, Marrsonino Leaf Blotch. It can defoliate apple leaves by August here in New England.
@alan suggested spray in the summer with myclobutanil and Captan.
I sprayed with I dar and Captan last week. Will need to spray with myclo and Captan one more time.
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Where did that come from?
Not sure it showedup about 4-5 years ago. It is very dreadful because your apples lost all leaves by the end of the summer. Some varieties are more susceptible than others.
@BobVance and @SMC_zone6
Have you seen Marrsonina Leaf Blotch on your apple trees. I did some spray so the issue is not severe yet.
@MikeC those leaves were from Gold Rush, Pomme Grise and Rubinette. Honey Crisp has hold up well so far, with help of fungicide spray.
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I haven’t noticed any. Everything’s looking surprisingly healthy considering all the rain and humidity we’ve had combined with not being able to get many sprays in.
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Glad your trees are clean. Hope they stay that way.
For my trees, once it showed up, it has refused to leave. I started spraying to protect against it last year. I have sprayed it this year again. With the rain we have had, I am glad that the problem is not as severe as a couple of years ago.
I should not be surprised. With all the rain I have had, fruit cracking is expected.
Wish it was other fruit than an Emeraude nectarines. I have only a couple of this variety.
Anyone else suffers from fruit cracking?
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My Heavenly White cracked and eaten by grasshoppers, this morning I threw all of them in a bin. It’s a young tree, I rarely eat fruit from a young tree. It hasn’t been raining since I got back, so I don’t know why they crack.
does soil in your area have sufficient calcium?
I have no idea, but this is a young tree and I only planted 2 years ago but in a tight spot. The Red Baron doesn’t crack, nor the Red Atomic nectarine.
Maybe give it another to see if cracking consistent
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