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Growing Plums Naturally

 
Steve Thorn
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I wanted to make this thread to help me keep track of and document my plum trees.

Hopefully it can be helpful to others also!

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My plum tree is blooming super early this year.

With another 2 months possibly until our last frosts, it will be a miracle if some plums make it.

I experimented and had a lot of mulch, almost a foot and a half thick, which was the only tree like that, and I think it was hot composting around the tree, which caused it to bloom earlier than usual.

The flowers sure are beautiful though!
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White plum blossoms in early spring
White plum blossoms in early spring
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Plum blossoms
Plum blossoms

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Can you find the busy pollinators?

I think they were honeybees, the only pollinators I saw out this early! Makes me glad to have lots of diverse native pollinators!
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Bee flying among plum blossoms
Bee flying among plum blossoms
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Bee on plum blossom
Bee on plum blossom

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This plum tree is in full bloom!

Are anyone else's plum trees blooming? Would love to see pictures!
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Plum tree in full bloom
Plum tree in full bloom

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A dreary day but beautiful blossoms!

The fragrance of these blooms is amazing. It fills the whole yard with a perfume/plum aroma!
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Plum tree filled with white blossoms
Plum tree filled with white blossoms

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Steve Thorn
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This plum tree's fragrance is just amazing! So captivating, it makes you just want to go sniff the flowers!

This tree has been minimally pruned besides the lower branches when I first got the tree. It has a great natural spreading form and beautiful healthy shape!

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Steve Thorn
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Future baby plums, if the frost will stay away!
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Lots of baby plums
Lots of baby plums

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Baby plums are starting to develop!
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Baby plums developing
Baby plums developing

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This unknown plum tree is growing lots of plums!

I didn't have to thin them due to the bugs getting a lot of them. Hopefully they'll leave these remaining ones alone (probably not, but I can dream right?)!

It's mulched with some shredded leaves and some "weeds" as a living mulch to help retain moisture during our hot and usually dryer summer months, and to also create increasingly fertile soil!

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Steve Thorn
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The Japanese and European plums have grown well this year and have put on a lot of growth.

I don't expect to get many European plums here with our heat and humidity, but it should be an interesting experiment and possibly future breeding project to try to develop some varieties that could do well here.
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