How to make Santa Rose J. plum bloom？

General Fruit Growing
#41

brownmola,Thanks for sharing your experiences… These flower buds are beautiful! hope you will start to get good crop . Meanwhile. I plan to start to practice my grafting this year and graft some branches with other plum variety so I don’t get so anxiously waiting for the Santa Rose.

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#42

I’ve had really good success using cleft grafts and parafilm with my plums, over 90% take. I don’t think I am skilled enough to do other types of grafting.

#43

Thanks, brownmola. I will get some parafilm when I start to graft my fruit trees.

#44

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Are these plum flower buds??

#45

Yes, some are flower buds.

#46

Yes. See the buds circled in red. These are flower buds :blush:

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#47

hooray!!! :muscle: :pray: :smile:

#48

Thank-you very much, hoosierquilt, for identifying which buds were flower buds. I was never quite sure which were which on my budding trees, so that really helped. Good luck, IL847. Maybe this will be your year!

#49

Thank you all. Will report back once I got fruits harvested, hopefully.

#50

@brownmola do you have any update with your santa rosa and satsuma? How would you rank those two fruits against red heart and Italian prune plum?

#51

I pulled the Satsuma as it rarely fruited over a span of 5 or 6 years. It could have been easily mislabeled though. The Beauty plum also got cut down as it produced a heavy amount of fruit one year and next to nothing the other 5 or 6 years. I only have Santa Rosa grafts that I put in last year but other people I know like their Santa Rosa a lot in this area.

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