[apywell]

I have a few Victoria plum trees that I need to prevent from pests getting at this year.  Although last year's fruit was ok, we lost lots to a kind of maggot that got inside the plums.

I have heard somewhere that there is a product that you paint around the bottom of the trunk to prevent this pest climbing and laying its eggs in the fruit.  

Does anyone know the product I need?

cheers
Alan

[babe]

plum fruit moth trap
plum maggot control

both traps, they have the femal pheromone in them attracts the male and stops them going to plums.

about £7.50, then the following years you buy a refil.

dont know of a nything else sorry

[apywell]

plum fruit moth trap
plum maggot control

both traps, they have the femal pheromone in them attracts the male and stops them going to plums.

about £7.50, then the following years you buy a refil.

dont know of a nything else sorry

OK, this sounds like what I was told.  

Thanks for this.

[gobs]

Yay, Babe you up-to-date, you are.  

[richyrich7]

You can get grease bands and paint from any good garden centre, just tell them what you are looking for and they should be able to help.  

[babe]

Yay, Babe you up-to-date, you are.  

im learning gobs... i actually helped someone out of the hen house

[gobs]

who was it in there, if I may ask    

[babe]

who was it in there, if I may ask    

ha ha ha   NOT ...

pucker up gobs  

[splodger]

wasps and leaf curling aphids are your main probs with plums - inside the fruit

and you will have a job to stop them

try picking the fruit just before it ripens - don't leave ripe or overripe fruit on the trees

thin out the fruit as they first form - so you don't promote disease or a glut - this is infact very important - but few can be bothered - as it is a job and a half to do

the more on the tree - the heavier the attack - especially with something like victoria

the heavier the yield - the more likely the tree will break off at some point - and run the risk of disease

[Trillium]

You don't hear much these days about people spraying their fruit trees with lime & sulphur mix (dormant oil mix) to kill insects overwintering in the tree bark, but it's a good idea.
I used to do it years ago but dropped off. Am picking up more this year as the bugs were starting to get ahead of me due to some drought we had here.
And the grease bands you were thinking of Apywell is commercially called Tanglefoot. It's actually painted on fabric bands wrapped around the tree trunk.