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August 25, 2019, 2:15am
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Here are a few posts from @scottfsmith that mention rot issues for Maryland. Sounds like a few good ones are: Euros plums–> Middleburg, Golden Transparent Gage and Bavay’s Gage. Asian plums → Lavinia, Satsuma and Spring Satin.
Here is my plum report for 2015. This was a real test year for rot, there was ridiculous rain heat and humidity in June/July which set things up for a really bad rot year. These are more or less listed in ripening order.
Early Blush - A very good way to start off the plum season, with a classic plummy-tasting plum. Unfortunately it badly rotted this year in the rainfest. Most seasons its only average for rot but it had some bad weather this year.
Spring Satin - Make sure to wait until they…
OK by popular demand heres the stone fruits… these are my 2005-2015 or so annual logs combined together. They are generally in the order of ripening as that is the order I log things.
One thing I should mention is many of these are unusual types, I get excited about something different. I grew many flat peaches, honey peaches, red-fleshed peaches, white apricots, etc. Many of these unusual kinds I still like. Also many of these are heirlooms, they don’t produce as reliably as modern varieti…
Also, look into the AU series of plums. Page 4 of this pdf ranks the rot resistance of each.
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