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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: bailey on July 12, 2009, 10:44

Title: plum tree
Post by: bailey on July 12, 2009, 10:44

not sure if anyone can help on this one,, I have a plum tree in the garden,, there when we moved in, not massive but we have had plums from it every year,, this yera though everything seemed ok plums wer just coming but everything on the tree has now shrivelled up and basically it looks like its died! leaves brown and crisp like in autumn,,

any ideas or wil i have to get someone in to have a look

thanks

Title: Re: plum tree
Post by: SG6 on July 12, 2009, 12:01

Sounds like a fungal infection that causes die back.
Just cannot find a reference to plum die back at this time. Unfortunately I am sure that I have sometime recently. :( :( :(

I had a plum infected with silver leaf and that is now very very dead, but when infected it had leaves with a silvery sheen, then the tree died. :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:

Title: Re: plum tree
Post by: Paul Plots on July 13, 2009, 22:51

Leaf curl?   :unsure: Did you prune it at the wrong time of year (whenever that is??)

My two look healthy - apart from snapped branches where blinking great pigeons keep settling!  :(

Title: Re: plum tree
Post by: peterjf on July 13, 2009, 23:31

you need to buy a fungicidle wash , spray , follow instruction,

most plum tree get hit just as the flowers have formed , then the fugus takes over completely as fruit has formed