Anybody have plums other than native?

[Turkey Creek]

Could have put this in the scion swap thread, but since we mainly focus on apple and pear there thought I would post this up here. I have quite a few suckers/ new sprouts around my native plums thought I might try to dig some up and use them as rootsock to graft over some other varieties just for an experiment. Anybody have plums they grow that would be willing to share a few scions?

Thanks!

 

[sandbur]

I might have some alderman and will have to look. Do you need 1/4 inch thick new growth like for apples?

 

[Turkey Creek]

No not necessarily. I would settle for what I could get just to give it a try.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Sandbur have you gotten plums off yours? I see Alderman requires cross pollination, are you just using natives for cross pollination?

 

[sandbur]

I have some farm plums that are fairly similar to wildlife plums nearby. I had a few plums one year, but any plum crop seems unreliable with late frosts. Even for the farmstead plums.

 

[Spur]

I have a lot of plums I purchased from a nursery. They haven't produced fruit yet, but there are fruit buds on them this year., so I don't know how good they taste. You can have scions off them if you want.

Btw, they are extremely aggressive growers!

 

[aerospacefarmer]

I have japanese plums and a few others from Cummins that I bought 5 years ago and they are bearing delicious plums. I can send you some idpf you like

 

[Turkey Creek]

Hey thanks gusys! Will European and Japanese plums both graft sucessfully to native plums? I was thinking that I had read somewhere that commercially they are grafted onto different root stocks.

 

[aerospacefarmer]

Don't know but if you shoot Tino an email at Cummins I am sure he can tell you

 

[Turkey Creek]

Don't know but if you shoot Tino an email at Cummins I am sure he can tell you

Will do. Need to ask them about something else as well... thanks for reminding me!:)

 

[Turkey Creek]

Got a response back from Cummins they said they felt pretty confident that native, north American plum should work as a rootstock. Did a little reseach myself and I think I came to the same conclusion. Some varieties are actually crosses involving American plum to impart more cold hardiness.

 

[chickenlittle]

I planted some native beach plum seedlings last year from the New Hampshire State Nursery. I expect the beach plum to be bushy and have small plums. Good for jelly and jam but probably not eating. I'm not sure yet how the beach plum compares to native american plum. I planted some of those from Missouri last year.

 

[Rally1148]

I can have some for you next year. We planted one tree last year (don't know what kind), and I'll be able to snip you some.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Thanks guys. Aero and Sandbur sent me some to experiment with this year. We will see if I have any luck.

 

[aerospacefarmer]

Thanks guys. Aero and Sandbur sent me some to experiment with this year. We will see if I have any luck.

Did any of those grafts happen yet Turkey?

 

[Turkey Creek]

Did any of those grafts happen yet Turkey?

Nope. Waiting for our wild plums to wake up a bit before I try and top graft them. Also ordered 25 native plums from MDC to try some bench grafts.