Didnt see a thread for 2025 plums, so I started one. Post your pictures here.
We only have two bearing trees AU rosa and producer. Our Burgundy plum drown 
AU Rosa is starting to ripen. As you can see I have some work to do to effectively treat for scab next season.
That’s a huge plum! It seems the lot of the AU series is a bit too high for my area, chill requirement-wise
Yes… I thinned well.
Holy cow on that branch!
I impulse purchased some clearance plums this week that I don’t think are good for my zone. I don’t expect them to survive or give fruit. But they were on clearance, so I’ll give them a chance… Good luck plums. Survival of the fittest.
Burbank
Santa Rosa
Spring Satin
Methley, I think this one will be fine.
I did the same a few years ago. I called them rescues. That’s how I ended up with a burgundy plum and it was delicious. My wife didnt like that it didnt have enough natural pectin for jelly and that she had to reprocess and add pectin for it to set up. But she did good because both the jelly and preserves are outstanding. We got one season, (the first season) of fruit off of it. It drown this spring, we had an extremely wet winter and two floods early spring. Hard to tell what the rootstock was, but it drown so the rootstock must not have been tolerant to extended period of wet feet.
Thats loaded down, I would have thinned the fruit to produce larger plums. But it is something to look at like that.
Italian plum bore a whole lot last year and has only a handful this year, just starting to color up. schoolhouse is a baby tree and has one single plum, just starting to turn from green to yellow.
toka was covered in fruitlets that all dropped. same with lakota graft on year 2.
i should have thinned a bit last year. i just wanted those plums so damn badly. we got 3 or 4 of these containers full. standard euro plum flavor. they start mid August and ripen until end of Sept.
I have a problem with an Italian Prune plum graft and need help to figure it out. Many years ago I planted a Santa Rosa plum tree and then grafted a Shiro at the top of the main stem, and then an Italian Prune above that. All of these, along with two other varieties of plums grew well and were productive, except the Santa Rosa, which rarely produced a real crop.
After I reduced the height of the tree by pruning off many of the upper branches, some of the upper main branches and trunk, which were Italian Prune, got sun scald and then contracted a fungus disease (Turkey Tail).
In an attempt to save the tree, I grafted a scion from the prune to a branch from the Shiro portion of the trunk and planned to replace the upper prune part with the graft when it was large enough. This seemed to play out well as the graft grew well for several years, and I was planning to cut the old prune parts off this year.
However, last year the new prune graft leaves showed some signs of disease; and this year they look like they are dying. Here are some photos of the new leaves.
The last photo shows some leaves on the old prune part of the tree, adjacent to the new part.
I thought that the new graft had contracted some kind of virus or other disease but have had no luck in finding a plum disease that matches the symptoms, which affect every leaf on the new graft.
The other possibility that comes to mind is that this is the result of a late developing graft incompatibility, but that seems unlikely because the healthy old graft is on Santa Rosa stock, while the new graft is on Shiro stock. Both stocks are oriental plums.
Here is a photo of the new graft union.
If anyone has any ideas about what is going on here, please comment. Thanks.
first ripe plums off Italian. we had a few drops early that were sour, these are ok though. sweet enough for me, a little crunch. we had one small rain but otherwise it’s been real dry for the whole month long.
early on this year all the toka fruitlets dropped off that grafted branch. I’ve got one lakota hanging. the schoolhouse made its first fruit, a bird pecked it and it dropped. this Italian plum had its big harvest last year and only had a dozen maybe this year total. it’s biennial ish, i suppose now after letting it hold so many last year.
tasty though, good plum flavor. they made good prunes last year too
Had a few drops this morning along with some ripe ones from a few of my trees. All of these are first time fruiting for me this year.
Santa Rosa- really liked these. The last pic I felt was perfectly ripe. Very good
Lavina- very tasty
Nadia - extremely juicy, only one this year
Candy heart Pluerry- these are cracking, very sweet
Sweet treat Pluerry - this was near the top for me taste wise
Satsuma- tried about 5 of them and they are all either underripe or when ripe they are kind of dry. I think bugs might be getting inside when they turn color and might be messing with the ripening. Least favorite, not good so far. I have about 20 more not ready so maybe it’s just the first few.
That CF #5 is amazing. I’ve never seen a Beach Plum with such dense fruit.
I’ve got a few fruit on the Jersey Gem and had to bag the branch before the cat birds got them.
Pretty sure the others are similar. This graft is in the center of a mature tree so it grew like crazy last year, which I think is what set it up to fruit like this. Hancock is later, but I think it’ll look similar. The others haven’t grown enough yet to put on (or not) similar displays, but they look promising.
Southern ag 20-20-20 plus chelated minor elements, applied just prior to bloom.
Au rosa and au producer.
Black Ice plum, producing for the first time this year. Sweet and juicy fruit from a very vigorous tree.
Other plums were eaten by bugs and birds… how do you all prevent that?
My wife made plum preserves, this is what was in the bottom of the pan. I can confirm au rosa has enough natural pectin to set up by itself and set up at room temperature without refrigeration. My wife is happy 
Out of the water bather. This is plenty enough for us for a season.
Tomorrow she said shes making plum apple butter with au producer plums and gala apples. I’m interested to see how it turns out with first gala apples from our ochards.
I have read that you can graft J. plums to E. plums but not the reverse, so your problem could be incompatibility. I have grafted J’s to E’s and results have been fine. However, the reverse would be more useful to me.
Incompatibility consequences are sometimes gradual.
In z3(on the closer to z2 side of z3).
Temcuseh’s are done, were Excellent. Pembina’s are another week or so. 1 Manor cherry plum has a few on it, ate one a couple days ago that was really not fully ripe and was Very pleasantly surprised. Size of a small sweet cherry, no cherry taste I would say, just a small plum, but really quite good. Going to bag some and wait till they’re more towards black, but I’m really pretty impressed; another z2 pretty good fruit!
