I am trying to keep up with Joe Real on a 150:1 plums tree

General Fruit Growing
#21

Black Knot did not showed up on this Shiro until the 4th or 5th year.

On my E plum, Coe’s Golden Drop, it showed up in year 3.

Nothing really effective against BK. I like to believe that my spraying Kocide during dormant has slowed it down/kept it from spreading too quickly.

Also, if you have a drier climate, you may not have as much of the issue like us here in the humid east,

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#22

I hope so. I lived on the hill and an open golf course so it is drier and more air flow.

#23

Mostly cleft grafts for me on stone fruits, including plum, with close to 100% takes. Bud grafts require too much management of apical dominance to be practical for me on a multigrafted tree.

#24

What is black knot?

#25

Common fungal disease on plums.

https://extension.psu.edu/plum-disease-black-knot.

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#26

Thanks for link. Never seen it in WA.

#27

I think i have about a dozen on an apricot tree–plum/pluot/peach/cots…various types of each…but who knows if it’s still alive after this winter. I got some peach to work on it because i used a branch of hesse or something as a go between (peach didn’t work directly on apricot).

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#28

I always chip bud mine here in the late summer (July/aug)…but i have no idea how it would work anywhere else. Its usually hot when i do it and the buds almost always stay dormant until the following spring. Good success with it though, but it does make you wait a winter to see if your results were a success.

#29

I’ve always T-budded as I read that was best for stone fruit but I will try Chip budding this year. I’m in south Louisiana where summer is hot and moist. Should I take any additional precautions ?

#30

I just counted my grafts on Blake’Pride pear tree OHxF 97). I have 15 grafts on it, 16 varieties including BP.

Some grow like weeds, Magness, Duchess. Others take its time, Fondante.

Growing pears and apples where I am seems easier than stone fruit. I must have grafted 20+ varieties of apples on my Honey Crisp. I lost counts.

I prefer pome to stone fruit for multi a grafted tree as it has less diseases and a chance of a tree surviving over a long period of time here is a lot better.

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#31

I agreed with you. I lost a multi grafted peach tree with about 10 varieties on it due to borer a few years back. That broke my heart for while.