My Santa Rosa here in Mich. blooms late and sets just a few in the past. It’s just starting to bud swell, whilst my other plums are starting to bloom. I’m hoping there will be blooms left to get my first real set but it doesn’t look good right now. I will have blooms on my Nadia. I’m hoping it fruits. Lots of good lap blooms with it.
Edit - It appears now that the flower buds are all dead on my santa Rosa. It’s strange because Toka, and Beauty branches are all full of buds ready to bloom.
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My first plucot was a Dapple Dandy. I have it grafted on everything. Have two bee hives and will have more than I know what to do with. Have lots of friends that want to get to ferment them. The seem to be very easy to graft. Bought a Nadi last spring. I thought it was a cross with a European plum. Only tried to graft it on my Stanley Plum. Can I graft it on to all my plucots, Nectarine peach and Aprium?
It’s crossed with Asian plum, and yeah you can graft it unto those mentioned.
Drew,
Nadia can be grafted on peach and nectarine?
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Thanks for mentioning this as it needs clarity.
I can’t say for sure, but Asian plum can, so I would say yes since plum genes seem to dominate.
Hopefully, someone with Nadia on peach and nectarine can chime in to confirm.
I have my Nadia planted10 feet from my Lapin, Santa Rosa plum and Sweet Treat Pluerry. My two bee hives are20 feet away and I have 5 Mason Bee Hotels. Gotta have nice weather during bloom and everything is just fine.
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So mine dropped every flower and its sending shoots out at the end of the tips so i hacked it back about 50% …looks like horse ____ but hopefully it comes back.
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My Nadia tree is dead =( it never took root at all and steadily wilted.
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Mine is forming fruit, but many could still drop off. If they don’t it will be loaded to the gills.
All my stone fruit is loaded this year, which is normal for here.
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Is yours growing in the ground? Have you tried it yet?>
All my container trees were heavily damaged it would seem. They must have dried out too much overwintering.
I might get some on my tree. I think most will drop off. I see they are not dark green.
Yeah not a good sign. The tree seems to do that, as did my sweet cherry trees. Nadia was beautiful this year, covered in flowers, spurs all over the larger branches even. My White Gold cherry is the same way this year. It has hundreds of fruits, now to keep them! Spraying again tomorrow! I pruned the tree to net it properly. I need to spray now too. I should have taken a photo of Nadia, I did of White Gold though. Photo taken May 8th. Nadia looked better than this one, still pretty though. A little past full bloom, notice the leaves.
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Very nice looking cherry tree Drew.
Tony
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Thanks KGB pruning although I’m modifying it. Not all laterals were removed, many were though. I’m at the point I’m supposed to stub cut the oldest scaffolds. What I’m going to do is stub and graft. Eventually ending this pruning method. I can still do it though. If you look dead center at bottom, you will see a tag, that is where 4 grafts of Utah Giant were placed. All appear to have taken.
Looking for more in the future, will start a thread of what I’m looking for.
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Will you wait until petal fall to spray? i do!
Yes, that photo was from May 8th. Nine days ago, flowers are just about gone.I will spray today or tomorrow if all are gone.
Drew,
Just a general question, will PC died once bitten on a fruitlet the was recently sprayed with Spectracide once and done aka Malathion or it will only died with the direct hit with the spray.
It should have at least 30 hours of staying power and kill any thing that touches it. If it was delivered in an acidic spray.
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Not sure but some sprays have curative ability…meaning they soak into the fruit and kill the egg…i know the neonics and a few others have that capability.