Which Is The Better Plum Mariposa Or Elephant Heart?
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Comments (21)Konrad: yeah Green Gage is great, but maybe too sweet for me, anyway GG is my kids favorite. Very sweet euro plum that comes to my mind is Toptaste., In my country it's popular with people who make home made plum brandy who use it for fermentation. Originally from Germany. In nurseries description they say it has up to 32brix, people usually report around 28brix (it's often compared to candied fruit, therefore too sweet for some ppl likings). Semi cling to freestone (depending on ripening stage), about 40g. Here it's ripening around 8/18-25 (for comparison we are about a week behind Pennsylvania's AC Nursery harvest chart). Not sure about Edmonton and if it's hardy to zone 3. Link: http://www.gartenversandhaus.de/websale7/Pflaume-Toptaste.htm?shopid=chrestensen&act=product&prod_index=P945240...See MoreApricot and plum fruit set report
Comments (8)Fruit set report Apple: They are still in flower, but are very healthy looking this year. Two of my tree (Fuji and Gravenstein) are only 2 so I will not let any fruit set on them. Fiesta is flowering well, interestingly in some places where there were spurs last year there are no flowers. I do not think that it over produced last year, as I dropped all but 1 fruit per cluster and removed over half of the buds. Apricot: Lots of frost damage to young buds, and it is only a 2 year old tree, therefore, no flowers yet Peaches: My Frost Peach is loaded with fruit, in fact I thinned the fruit to one every 6 inches last night. I have it trained up to about 10 feet along the south wall of my house. The trunk is only about 2.5 feet and the fruiting wood starts there. Almost every blossom set fruit. Some of the nodes along the fruiting branches had fruit sets of 6-8 fruitlets the size of small marbles. I need to thin out some of the growth as well. I just planted a Veteran in February and I am going to remove any fruit that sets on it. Unfortunately, I do not think the nursery was very good about controlling leaf curl as it has some despite my application of copper before bud brake late in the dormant season. Pears: The Pears had tons of blossoms. My Flemish beauty seems to have set quite a few as well. The Anjou had fewer blossoms but it seems to have set a good amount of fruit as well. We will see how many drop naturally, in the past I have found that most do, as my trees are only 5 this year. Conference is new as of February, it has 1 flower cluster, but I will be removing any fruit that sets. Plum: Stanley plum has lots of fruitlets on the lower branches, and fewer on the upper branches. There are probably 4 to 5 pepper corn sized fruitlets per spur, I will drop fruit next month after natural drop occurs. My Green Gage is new this February. Persimmon: Just leafing out now. It dropped all its fruit last year when they were the size of a quarter. Hopefully that doesn't happen this year, but it is young too. Figs: Lots of embryos swelling on outer tips of the branches on both the Italian honey and brown turkey. Grapes vertical growth is only 2 inches now Citrus: Lisbon Lemon set many fruit last month, I have thinned them out a bit, and it continues to flower. The lime (I think it is a Tahitian) is producing some new flowers now. I put my citrus out two weeks ago, and of course a light frost hit them the first night. I sustained some damage, but I think they are tough enough to handle it. cheers Sam...See MoreElephant Hearts Soften and Fall off Early!!! WHY?
Comments (3)bf: Yes, I have had similar experiences, just this yr in fact. Mine stems from too much water. All the symtoms are exactly like mine. Big beautiful fruit that softens and matures early. The fruit are extra juicy and less sweet than usual. I cut the water off for three weeks and the later plums have been much better, many even spectacular. The same thing can happen in other stone fruit. A mild to moderate water stress gives me best fruit. I want some vegetative growth all summer but not the rampant growth you may get in spring. Symtoms of too much water stress in plums and pluots are off flavors, perhaps less sweet and less crisp fruit. In nectarines too much stress causes thick, tough skin and maybe cracks mostly on the tip end of the fruit. There can be off flavors. Nectarines with proper water levels tend to have stippling on the tips but no cracks or thick tough skin. How much have you been watering this spring and summer? The Fruitnut...See MoreWhich plum tree?
Comments (16)It's not clear whether the "Hollywood" that Raintree sells is "Spencer Hollywood", which is supposed to be a small tree originating near the coast in the Northwest. How big are you planning to let your tree get? If that's the one I wanted (maybe for the front yard) I would get it from a supplier that identified it as "Spencer Hollywood"). To make your choices even harder, One Green World sells a red-leafed plum they identify as a European plum, originating near the coast at the Nichols Garden Nursery, which I assume is the one in Albany, Oregon. When people mention a "multi" tree here, they're not referring to a tree with peaches, plums, etc. on the same tree. They're referring to a tree with several varieties of either Japanese or European plums. They can be quite traditional-looking most of the year. Japanese plums have much more rampant growth than European plums and may bear earlier. If I were in Seattle in a neighborhood with plums, I would check with my neighbors concerning what kinds of plum trees they have and which ones they like. The either plant one recommended by neighbors or one which bears at a different time and share with neighbors. Japanese and European plums usually do not bloom at the same time and are not typically suitable for cross-pollination. I don't think you can trust information which says that either European or Japanese plums are carefree to grow. Also, you may wish to check Raintree's variety list closer to the bareroot season....See Moresteviejr85
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