[vron]

  Hi everyone , I think I have killed my Victoria plum tree.

For the last few years my Victoria plum tree has suffered badly from brown rot.
In 2007 & 2008 I pruned out the diseased wood and burnt it, but to no avail.

Last August I decided to give it one last good haircut, to get it back into shape
and of a more managable size. 
Unfortunately it now has silver leaf, on all branches that were pruned.

The main trunk is showing signs of a brown corkyness under the bark.
Which is so soft you can pick at it with your nails, so I think this is infected to.

Can this tree be removed and another Victoria plum planted in it's place?
There is nowhere else it can go.

[gillie]

Victoria is particularly susceptible to silver leaf -  I lost my tree a few years ago.

I would not replant a plum in the same spot, and definitely not a Victoria.

Gillie

[BostonInbred]

As I also do wood turning and have a 42" flatbed lathe, is the timber worth recovering?  Ill take it off you hands free......ill even coem and chop it down for you......

 :happy:

[vron]

Went up the lottie on saturday, and low and behold there are buds on the plum tree.

They are all over the branches that I thought were diseased.
Have I got it wrong maybe. what do you think.
Shall I wait and see what happens or murder the plum

[mumofstig]

I have this corky bark thing on my cherry tree and just thought that's what the bark was like :blink:

I'd wait and see.........but that's just me

[DavidT]

The first rule of gardening is patience, wait and see what happens. 

[Shedenvy]

id give it one last chance then if it doesnt earn its keep id remove  I wouldnt put another in its place though if you still want plums put a stepover in you dont need much room as you can put it on edge of one of your beds