That is a great collection! I have Dapple Dandy, Splash, Emerald Drop, and Santa Rosa, but have been planting to have fruit for every month of the year. If you like blackberries, I highly recommend KIOWA. I put two plants in the ground and let them run wild down the fence, and after just 12 months I have now picked almost 75 pound! They are huge too!
Wow that sounds great!! I am right there with you, have fruit every month. I have to do a lot of work for berries here due to the heat, but maybe after my orchard is more established I will give it a go.
That slightly messed up by aphids looking leaf with no aphids...it may have *had* aphids. Once you've got some local ladybugs and whatever else they tend to wipe them out pretty quickly. I grafted a Toka plum this year. It's been defoliated by bugs and then by rabbits. So it's on its third leaf. ;) Do you have any American plums to pollinate it? Or are Japanese plums blooming at the same time?
I agree with you on the aphids, not so sure if it is a long term consiquence or maybe peach leaf curl. I have American, European and Japanese plums that will hopefully pollinate each other. Which is why I do a lot of grafting, trying to maximize pollinization.
I'm soo jealous. I killed so many newly planted trees that had thick trunks - by overwatering over the summer. Really need to leave them alone even though they look "drought" I killed 2 great looking 4 in one pluots, emerald beaut plum, two other great variety plums (forgot the name right now). All by overwatering. My soil is clay and it looks really dry on top.
That is a great collection! I have Dapple Dandy, Splash, Emerald Drop, and Santa Rosa, but have been planting to have fruit for every month of the year. If you like blackberries, I highly recommend KIOWA. I put two plants in the ground and let them run wild down the fence, and after just 12 months I have now picked almost 75 pound! They are huge too!
Wow that sounds great!! I am right there with you, have fruit every month. I have to do a lot of work for berries here due to the heat, but maybe after my orchard is more established I will give it a go.
@@flackfruit I'm FL 9A, and berries do best for me in partial shade
I picked flavor supreme when it wasn't fully red inside, and it was still very tasty
I agree, when they are ripe they are spot on but I sometimes eat them early, got to get it before the birds do.
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Seems like plums are growing better for you. You don't seem to struggle so much like with muscadine and grapes.
Very true, the grapes seem to reset every year, this year I have a good amount, muscadines are holding on.
That slightly messed up by aphids looking leaf with no aphids...it may have *had* aphids. Once you've got some local ladybugs and whatever else they tend to wipe them out pretty quickly. I grafted a Toka plum this year. It's been defoliated by bugs and then by rabbits. So it's on its third leaf. ;) Do you have any American plums to pollinate it? Or are Japanese plums blooming at the same time?
I agree with you on the aphids, not so sure if it is a long term consiquence or maybe peach leaf curl. I have American, European and Japanese plums that will hopefully pollinate each other. Which is why I do a lot of grafting, trying to maximize pollinization.
I'm soo jealous. I killed so many newly planted trees that had thick trunks - by overwatering over the summer. Really need to leave them alone even though they look "drought" I killed 2 great looking 4 in one pluots, emerald beaut plum, two other great variety plums (forgot the name right now). All by overwatering. My soil is clay and it looks really dry on top.
That sounds crazy, where do you live?
@flackfruit dfw