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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: mdjlucan on July 01, 2020, 05:16

Title: Victoria plumb
Post by: mdjlucan on July 01, 2020, 05:16

When's the best time to prune the trees back

Title: Re: Victoria plumb
Post by: Yorkie on July 01, 2020, 08:27

Stone fruit trees like plum should be pruned in summer - later this month or August, perhaps.  Don't do it over winter.

Title: Re: Victoria plumb
Post by: jezza on July 01, 2020, 18:46

Hello now or immediately after fruiting in August as the tree will get silver leaf disease and that kills the tree jezza

Title: Re: Victoria plumb
Post by: mdjlucan on July 01, 2020, 20:35

For some reason there was hundreds of plums last year this year not one bit of fruit what can that be

Title: Re: Victoria plumb
Post by: Yorkie on July 01, 2020, 20:49

Sometimes fruit trees take a year off after a bumper year.

Or perhaps there was a problem at pollination time.

Title: Re: Victoria plumb
Post by: mdjlucan on July 02, 2020, 02:46

thanks