I wouldn’t see why they wouldn’t work (just my guess). I have grafted peaches and plums to Prunus Americana rootstocks (suckers from my in-laws trees here in Southern Illinois).
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I tried and did not have success, but I think that was due to ignorance of the proper temperature and timing - I grafted early in the spring when it was cool. I have a lot of American plum volunteers, so I plan to try again.
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There’s a bunch of American plums planted by the state at local parks here. If I lived next door to the park and grew plums I’d probably kill them because they’re horribly diseased with brown rot and disease reservoirs. Between disease and plum curculio all the fruit ends up destroyed well before ripening.
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I hear ya. Minnesota native Chokecherry and Black Cherry trees planted in parks become a reservoir too.
I attempted a graft of dappled dandy pluot to American plum and it failed. I blame my poor grafting skills. Anyone tried hybrids like this on American plum?
a local town planted purple leaved sand cherry all along their main street about 15 yrs ago. they are right full of black knot. the ones that arent already dead. i picked a bunch of cherries off the healthier ones about 6 yrs ago . bland even in jam.
i have a improved canadian plum and several hardy apricots grafted onto my black ice hybrid plum. all survived and put on good growth. im not a expert grafter by any means but have had good luck with cleft grafts taking. not so much with the others. cleft seems to be very forgiving. not pretty but it works.
Last year I grafted Contender, Belle of Georgia, an unknown local peach, and Flavor King pluot to plum rootstock.
I had several fail (Flavor Queen, Obilnaya, Flavor Grenade, Flavor Delight, Dapple Dandy, and a few others). I too attribute it to my first year grafting and not being very good at it. I am trying a whole slew of them this year in hopes that some take.
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Was your rootstock American plum? Thanks for the feedback.
Ya. Prunus Americana. They were suckers that I dug up from in-laws 2 trees. It’s very possible that they never developed roots after I dug them up. The Dapple Dandy, Flavor Queen, and Methley took off at first and then later failed.
These are all the varieties I will be trying to graft this year…
- Flavor Rich
- Dapple Dandy*
- Flavor Supreme
- Spring Satin
- Obilnaya*
- Flavor Delight*
- Flavor Grenade*
- Toka*
- Splash*
- Sweet Treat
- Ox Heart
- Black Ice*
- Bluebyrd
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Looks like a great spread! Where are you getting your scion wood?
A few scions came from eBay, but most from trades with members on here.
Are Splash scions sold anywhere by a nursery that sells scions? I’ve seen lots of reports that it’s one of the more productive pluots (along with Flavor Grenade), but it’s also one of the older ones, and been off-patent for a while, so it doesn’t seem very popular. I think Geopride was the other older one, that people who grew it had good things to say about it as far as taste and productivity, but mostly fell off the radar.