My Edibles: Plum Trees NSW

Plum - Satsuma ^7/10

Comments: -

Love home grown fruit!

Fruiting Months January

Height 7 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 1 Pounds Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Fruit fly traps

Plum - Mariposa ^9/10

Comments: -

taste

Fruiting Months January

Height 7 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Fruit fly traps

Plum - Santa Rosa

Plum - Gulf Ruby

Planted: 2010

Davidson Plum - NSW

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Such a beautiful girl! I love her velvety pink new growth - if only you could make a dress out of it! You have to be careful not to damage a leaf though because when she's little one leaf is a significant proportion of the tree.

2009: She transplanted from my old house which was great - I was particularly worried about her cause she's a native. She did get flowers that year but I had to pull them off because I didn't want her to waste energy on them when I needed her to focus on surviving the move.

2010: First fruit this year. My dad LOVES how sour it is. I think next year the fruit that he doesn't eat might be destined to make some yummy relish.

Summer 2011: Lots of suckery new growth coming round the base. To leave or not to leave? Do I want a bush or a tree?

Spring 2011: I left the suckers because I was worried that I might have planted her into potty mix that was a bit gross. She seems fine though. Hated the strong spring winds that we had this year. I have planted some cassava to try and grow a windbreak for her.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2007

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: chicken poo, worm castings, Seasol, Charlie Carp

Pest Control:

Elephant weevils might be the ugliest looking thing I have ever seen. They are big enough to just pick off but EWWWW!

Plum - Sugar

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Summer 2011: Gift from my friend Brett. Looking forward to comparing it to the other unknown plum cuttings we struck earlier in the year.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Plum (unknown) (Cutting)

Comments: -

Spring 2011: Cuttings given to me by a friend of a friend (thakns heaps Brett!!) who inherited the parent tree with his farm... none of us know what sort they are but they are yummers! The first of the cuttings just appear to be coming to life.

Summer 2011: Out of 5 cuttings only 2 grew leaves (back in spring). One was dead as a dodo but the other 2 were still green - just sleepy?? So I scraped off some bark, dunked them in rooting hormone and repotted them. One is already starting to how signs of success!

Planted: 2011

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 4

Pollination: No

Plum - Santa Rosa (Grafted) ^7/10

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Bought this on dwarf rootstock. Growing more strongly in it's second year, flowered this year but no fruit yet. Bought because it's self pollinating.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: sheep manure, lucerne hay

When I Fertilise: Spring

Plum - Gulfgold (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

Very attractive little tree, bearing largish yellow plums. These ripen later than Gulf Ruby and taste very good provided you wait till fully ripe. In second year producing 30 plums even though its partner Gulfruby did not flower this year, so it looks like it's self-pollinating well.

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 20 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 30% in Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Gulf Ruby

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Early bearing so no fruit fly problems. No other pests encountered, so no spray needed.

Organic Status:Organic

Plum - Gulf Ruby (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

Very attractive little tree, bearing a large number of beautiful red plums. The skin is a little bitter. The flesh is yellow, juicy, soft and fairly pleasant. In second year did not produce flowers, but had plenty in third year. Must wait till fully ripe (dark colour and turning soft) to get best taste.

Fruiting Months November

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 50 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Pruned By: 20% in Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Gulfgold

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: Early bearing so no problem with fruit fly. No other pests. No sprays needed.

Organic Status:Organic

Plum - Mult Grafted (Grafted)

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Multi grafted plum, affectionatley called my Muti PLum for it mutant nature, rootstock Myrobolan, grafted with mariposa, regrafted with gulf gold and gulf ruby. Problamatic but interesting. Lesson in importance of thinning the fruit. Lost one of the grafts, not to worry grafted some of the broken bits onto new rootstock shoots - way to low, going to create new problem next year when the fruit hang on the ground.

The Chill Factor - end Aug/Sept 2010 - all the plums are flowering together, by early Sept. the Gulf Gold has set lots of fruit - but is still spot flowering.  The mariposa part of the tree is also flowering, what felt like a warm winter because the minimums were high was cooler because the maximums were lower - so the chill factor was higher!

I used mesh fruit fly exclusion bags on a couple of branches of the plums, the birds have been pecking at them today - so I picked the gulf ruby's.

Planted: 2004

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Plum - Gulf Ruby ^7/10

Comments: -

Looks like it's growing ok. Growing well but still no sign of fruit though my other plum has now got one fruit on it..

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Gulk Gold

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Question:

Leaves have lots of holes....caterpillars or something are attacking the tree! 

Advanced Plum - Gulfgold ^9/10

Comments: -

Bought 3 weeks ago but already has a plum (thanks to the nursery's previous hard work!) :P
 My one plum is getting bigger- will be good when it gets some cousins ;P One plum will not stretch that far!

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Gulf Ruby

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Question:

Bought a cross pollinator (Gulf Ruby) which isn't fruiting...should this also fruit eventually?

Podocarpus elatus - Ilawarra Plum Pine

Comments: -

Doing well until accidentally stepped on. Awaiting outcome.

Height 0.3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Plum - Gulfgold

Comments: -

Magnificent flowers - better than some "flowering" plums. Has set too much fruit so I will have to thin vigorously. There is no nearby pollinator.

Planted: 2008

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Nil

Plum - Elephantheart (Grafted)

Comments: -

New.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Plum - Damson (Grafted)

Comments: -

New

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Plum-Prune (Grafted) ^2/10

Comments: - This tree grows well but only gives a hand full of fruit, Im suspecting we do not get enough chill hours here on the coast for it to fruit properly. I've grafted a green gauge plum nearby and hope this helps with fruit set .

Planted: 1987

Height 3.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Davidson Plum - NSW (Seedling) ^6/10

Comments: - It looks good and appears to be growing well

Planted: 2010

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Plum-Seedling ^8/10

Comments: - Its a big old, tough, yellow plum tree,with lots of little plums that ripen early.

Planted: 1955

Height 10 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 100 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pruned By: 5% in

Pollination: Cross Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control: Natrlure in spring

Organic Status:Organic

Plum - Luisa (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

New tree growing well, but not fruiting yet.

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Plum - Yarrahapinni Blood

Davidson Plum - NSW (Seedling)

Qty: 3

Water Given in: Summer

When I Fertilise: Never

Organic Status:Organic

Natal Plum

Kakadu Plum

Comments: -

I would like to try another one of these.  So far I have lost two, this was not the trees fault.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Plum - Yarrahapinni Blood (Cutting)

Comments: -

Photo taken 2009 -No rain Nov-Jan

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Davidson Plum - NSW (Seedling)

Comments: -

Tried making some jam from some fruits I found in a public place - really nice, tart jam.  Can't wait for mine to grow.

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Plum - Santa Rosa (Grafted)

Comments: - grafted onto other plum

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Plum Narabeen (Grafted)

Comments: - grafted onto other plum

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Plum - Satsuma (Grafted)

Comments: - just planted its a 3 way multi grafted

Planted: 2010

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun