My problem is that I’ve planted too many trees and they are becoming very hard to manage. I think I have 30 plum trees, and pest and disease pressure are very high. 8 trees with some different varieties grafted on would be ideal. I know this isn’t the best logic, but if I top work a tree, at least I don’t have to spend so much time battling PC on it for a few years. I’ll probably graft a few branches of Early Laxton on another Euro, then top work the existing EL with Castleton. Here’s a link to a picture of the Early Laxton I picked this summer: What's happening today - 2018 edition - #1544 by ztom
I feel your pain.
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Vincent, do you still have Rosy gage? If so, I’d like to get a couple of scions this winter if possible.
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@murky ive got one in ground hasn’t set yet been 3 years but if Vincent doesn’t have any pm me
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Yes still have it until after this winter. Tasting great but seems like has fruit every other year not too fruity and leaves easily getting disease.
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Beautiful! What are the plums growing near your Rosy gage that bloom at the same time & possibly pollinate it?
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@3Secondchances Hi Manasi
I got your message. I would like to discuss here so some others fruit growers in the areas give us more experience information as well. Could I ask the name of all your plum trees first. They’re European or Japanese varieties? The European I would recommended Greengage, Stanley, Italian… Japanese varieties do well here are Shiro, Methley, Beauty. And I am very interesting with the hybrid varieties such as: Sweet Treat, Sugar Twist, Nadia and Splash Pluot… Most of European plum are self fertile but planting close together better for pollination.
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@3Secondchances today 1.1.23 I just relocated my Rosy gage next to D’entre 707 plum tree. I still need to study from both of them.
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Hi @Vincent_8B ,
These are the varieties I have purchased for spring planting-
Flavor Queen pluot
Emerald beaut plum
Toka plum
Italian plum
Rosy gage plum
Coes golden drop plum
Geneva Mirabelle plum
Green gage plum
Does the Green Gage bloom before or after most of the European plums?
I’m hoping that the bloom time of at least one of the Asian plums overlaps with Flavor Queen!
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@murky said plash Pluot performance well so I just ordered will receive them in this month.
All your orders from Raintree? All your plum are European varieties except Toka is American hybrid and Flavor Queen is Pluot. Flavor Greenade Pluot @Bradybb has one. Not all them fruiting here so do some research before ordering is better idea. Greengage and all European plum bloom almost the same time around early April after Pluot and Japanese plum.
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There’s not much difference between Euro plums w.r.t. bloom time, the vast majority of them overlap.
Regarding Italian plum, there are many similar prune-type varieties with larger fruit and better flavor, for example, Bluebyrd, Kenmore, Brooks, Stanley, Longjohn, Victory, Autumn Sweet, Empress, Imperiale Epineuse.
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Lovely! Did you get any fruit from these? Did they ripen before it got cold?
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@3Secondchances both green gage and rosy gage ripe well here in Seattle before the end of August every year.
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Did you get fruit off any of those plums yet? How do you like them?
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I live in Ohio and had a bumper crop. My gage is about 6ft tall and 7 years old. It produced over 200 plums this summer. They were small but very sweet.
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Untrue, some plums are just more susceptible than others here. I took out my Methely plum because it was prone to every affliction under the sun. Other varieties get hit now and then, but no constant pressure as long as you are vigilant and remove any knots ASAP.
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Was there a particular time of year,that the knots appeared on the Methley Plum tree?
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If it’s a larger tree you may have a hard time spotting new black nodules until the leaves drop. If you keep your eyes peeled when the temps start to climb in the spring or early summer you may be able to spot new knots forming and growing. I’m now attempting to keep most of my trees near my house under 8 ft high. Tall trees are really hard to manage as far as infections and pests go when you can’t reach high enough to easily prune or spray.
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I’m also in ohio - northeast. Do you do a lot of spraying? I’ve been lucky with my plums so far with very minimal sprays, but I’m not sure how long that will continue.
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I did have to spray twice for blacknot. I also removed several infected branches. Fortunately, i did not have to use any sprays for my fruit.
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