Plum

[ze leetle elper]

Ok so I have a plum tree in my garden, they are fattenning up quite well (still green though!) but today I noticed some insects on them...seemed to be sucking? Long like a tiny skinny caterpillar or something?

Anything I can treat/ spray on the tree to keep pests from nicking all my plums?! :sky11:

[ze leetle elper]

http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/techniques/pests/plum_sawfly.htm :eek:

My tree already has fruit...what can I do?!

[Riz]

you might have to get the derris. ill look further into it and get back to you.. My neighbour had a plum tree for over 15 years, and every year it yielded loads of fruit and some seasons just a handful off fruit... 70% of the fruit was always edible from it, the rest got diseased...

[edibles]

my tree is still under attack from our friendly local aphid:mad: but fruit is still getting bigger though it dropped some premature

pic looks like a baby mango:p

[Riz]

my tree is still under attack from our friendly local aphid:mad: but fruit is still getting bigger though it dropped some premature

pic looks like a baby mango:p

loving the pics..
can you make achaar out of un-ripened plums !!?

[edibles]

i've never tried. i dont eat achaar so i really wouldn't know

[~Obsidian~]

So it was definitely a plum tree then ze? Your daughter is going to love picking the fruits insha Allah :D

[ze leetle elper]

Yup definately a plum tree hehe...after I poste the woeful story above :p we put tape around a section of the trunk and greased it as well...seems to have broken the cycle so far cos lots of the plums are now doing really well alhamdullillah! the tree is drooping a lot from the weight of them lol, I saw a blemish of pink in one of them the other day so yay inshaallah they will ripen up nicely and be yummy to eat! :)

[ze leetle elper]

We also have another tree behind it, I think we mistook it for a cherry tree, but the fruit is too big to be a cherry! But too small to be a plum! So I am now thinking it may be an apricot tree lol...we'll just have to wait and see :p

[edibles]

We also have another tree behind it, I think we mistook it for a cherry tree, but the fruit is too big to be a cherry! But too small to be a plum! So I am now thinking it may be an apricot tree lol...we'll just have to wait and see :p

Pic please, I love apricots

[ze leetle elper]

First is plum, second is suspected apricots :p

[~Obsidian~]

They look the same :o

Hey I just brought back the newest addition to my garden...

Her name is Claude, Reine-Claude ;)

[ze leetle elper]

lol yeah they look the same but one is oval like a pluma nd the other is round like an apricot :p

where is the newest edition...Reneeee? i dpn't see a pic?! :p

[~Obsidian~]

Oh I'm waiting for her to either establish herself or die first, I planted her out now I've just gotta wait a bit...

[~Obsidian~]

She might survive! Here's Reenie! About a meter tall I think.

[edibles]

it looks very nice Obsidian I hope it does well for you

[~Obsidian~]

JazakhAllah Edibles! LOL look at the amount of trash in that pic, contrast of the very dry dust at the back and the fresh black compost, the dead leaves from the ivy and the rubble. Looks like a wasteland!!:tumbleweed:

[Tania]

Reinee Claude its your plum tree ? planted in your garden, right?

[ze leetle elper]

Just water it loads sis :up: I dench my garden everyday now the weather is really hot and poor flowers and veggies begin to droop! :( so give them a good shower they wil appreciate it :D :sky11: :sky11:

[edibles]

JazakhAllah Edibles! LOL look at the amount of trash in that pic, contrast of the very dry dust at the back and the fresh black compost, the dead leaves from the ivy and the rubble. Looks like a wasteland!!:tumbleweed:

its not that bad, you should see how many loquat leaves litter my garden.

[~Obsidian~]

Reinee Claude its your plum tree ? planted in your garden, right?
yup, really called Reine-Claude.
Just water it loads sis :up: I dench my garden everyday now the weather is really hot and poor flowers and veggies begin to droop! :( so give them a good shower they wil appreciate it :D :sky11:
Aye aye cap'n!
its not that bad, you should see how many loquat leaves litter my garden.

:)

[ze leetle elper]

Mashaallah my plum tree is in full swing now :D Nearly all plums are ripened/ ripening nicely! We've already picked LOADS and given to family/ friends etc! Like bags of them! They are really nice oval shaped plums mashaAllah and are very yummy and sweet!! Will post up pics soon!

[ze leetle elper]

Plum pics!

[Kirsten]

That looks so yummmy... my cousin in Sweden has two huge plum trees in her yard and we would just go out and pick bowlfuls and eat all day :)

[Riz]

yummy !!!

ripened fruit looks so pleasing..........

[edibles]

yours are still ripening? ours have finished

[ze leetle elper]

flowers have bloomed and gone and now the little plums are showing! Hope we get a good haul this year inshaAllah and lots of sun to ripen them!

[Tania]

I decided to have a Stanley plum tree in the garden.
Pics from may and last week:
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5953/im008026.jpg
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6545/im008029.jpg
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7254/im008085.jpg

[~Obsidian~]

Nothing but a bunch of leaves from Reenie this year. Next year insha'Allah....

Nice tree Tan :D

[ummahmed]

i have a dwarf victorian plum tree growing in a mahoosive container in my front garden :D sadly it hasn't fruited this year :violin:

i've already pruned it back so wondering what else i can do to make sure it fruits next year? Should i mulch in the winter? when and how often should i fertilise the soil, etc, any advice to keep it health and ensure it fruits would be great :ty:

[~Obsidian~]

Well according to this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2008/01/08/damsons_feature.shtml) page:

In the spring time I would feed your Plum Tree with a general base fertiliser such as GrowMore of Fish Blood and Bone Meal and if possible, your tree would appreciate being mulched around the roots with some well rotted manure. On the question of pruning the time to prune your tree is early spring/summer time to avoid infection from Silver Leaf Disease. If the basic structure/frame work of your tree is already established very little pruning will be required and all you may need to do in future years is to thin out some overcrowded branches.

When did you plant the tree btw? It may take a couple of years to become established, until then you'll just have leaves.

And according to a user of the growfruitandveg forum they just scrape back the topsoil and replace it, as well as fertilising the tree and it works wonders.

[ze leetle elper]

I don't do anything to my tree *embaressingly!* maybe cos its already quite established?

My dad bought a plum tree a few years back, it didn't fruit unti the 2nd year and even then it was about 2or 3 tiny plums which were not very sweet lol! :D this year however (I think its the 3rd year?) it produced loads of fruit mashaAllah, but many were affected by disease, maybe because the tree is still quite young?

Plant lots of flowers and other plants around it, get the bees attracted to the area and inshaallah pollination shall occur and you shall reap the fruits of your labour! :p

[ze leetle elper]

Our haul this year has been amazing btw mashaallah, A few weeks ago we picked many bowl fulls of juicy plums! Distributed to everyone we could think of lol, and had requests for more! :p Today we have picked another huge haul of plums, I think some may be coming your way Hiking... :cheerleader:

[~Obsidian~]

:D I only just saw this now!!!

JazakiAllahu Khayr ze :D masha'Allah they look so nice! Can't wait til Iftar to try them! Totally blindsided me though :eek:

[ze leetle elper]

Hope they are as yummy as they smelt and looked! Didn't taste any from todays haul yet! :)

[~Obsidian~]

She might survive! Here's Reenie! About a meter tall I think.

Whoa, was I standing on something when I took that? Reenie has shot up! T'was supposed to be a dwarf tree as well, hope it doesn't attempt to shoot up too much or the pruning'll be brutal...

Insha'Allah she'll give us some fruit this year, it's been almost two years since she was planted! If not, I shall be rather sad :down:

[pwr_wrx]

I got some plums from the store and put the seeds in a moist paper towel in tupperware in the fridge just like how i germinated my almonds...hopefully they grow :)

[Tania]

The plum tree planted last year:
http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/2082/capture16.png

[Tania]

I hope the tree will have his first fruits this year:
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/2373/imag0057qr.jpg

[ze leetle elper]

plums have started growing mA
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a59/zeleetleelper/DSC03764.jpg

[Riz]

i use to have a huge plum tree in the garden ,every year we use to get so much fruit the branches use to snap off.. but as the years went past it just got diseased and never recovered, i wasn't into growing at that time :( wish i still had it

[Tania]

Ohh Zee, the fruits are looking so well. Congratulation :)
My plum gave up at his flowers, so this year will be not plums in the garden.


Riz, you have a big garden. Why you don't just plant a tree in autumn?