My Edible Fruit Trees: Plum Trees QLD

Plum - Gulf Ruby (Grafted) ^6/10

Planted: 2023

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Gulf Gold

Davidson Plum NSW (Seedling) ^8/10

Comments: -

native and unique

Planted: 2022

Height 80 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Plum - Santa Rosa (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

This has been grafted to a tree as a "double graft" with a Mariposa plum so that they can cross-pollinate one another.

I am so happy with it!

It flowered and "fruited" already technically, but dropped all its fruit as it really is far too young and small to be bearing fruit.

However it did everything perfectly, so maybe this year or next year we will start to see the pay off and its "practice run" kept the local bees happy.

Still in a large grow pot while we work out where to install it!

Planted: 2022

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Mariposa

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Plum - Mariposa (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

This has been grafted to a tree as a "double graft" with a Santa Rosa plum so that they can cross-pollinate one another.

I am so happy with it!

It flowered and "fruited" already technically, but dropped all its fruit as it really is far too young and small to be bearing fruit.

However it did everything perfectly, so maybe this year or next year we will start to see the pay off and its "practice run" kept the local bees happy.

Still in a large grow pot while we work out where to install it!

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Santa Rosa

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

Davidsons Plum - QLD (Seedling) ^8/10

Comments: - It's a beautiful looking tree - there's something prehistoric looking about it and it's doing really well in a large terracotta pot.

Planted: 2021

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic Lifter/Seasol

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Wongai Plum

Plum - Gulf Blaze

Plum - Gulf Beauty

Plum - Gulf Ruby

Plum - Mariposa

Pluot Plum - Black Adder

Burdekin Plum

Height 60 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Dwarf Plum Gulf Gold Tree (G) (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Planted when dormant in Winter,  now growing well

Planted: 2021

Height 0.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

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

Plum - Sugar (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Very nice stonefruit for eating and kids devour them.

Fruiting Months October

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 2017 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 10% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control: Poly fly screen bags purchased from ebay.

Organic Status:Organic

Governors Plum - seedling (Seedling) ^4/10

Comments: - Quite an attractive bush, but can have very large thorns. I find the small fruit pleasant with a mild sweet flavour. Unfortunately this did not fruit for many years and STILL has very small amounts of fruit, despite there being three adjacent from one another, with beehives closeby. 

Planted: 1999

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Spicezee - Nectarine x Plum (Grafted)

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Plum Gulf Gold Tree (G) (Grafted)

Comments: - Wait and see. Growing this summer.

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

Plum - Gulf Ruby

Comments: - Wait and see as growing this summer.

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Gulf gold

Organic Status:Certified

Burdekin Plum (Seedling)

Comments: - Planted by previous owners. Fruit much less astringent once ripe, more flesh than quandong.

Planted: 2011

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 20 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none

Pest Control: None

Davidsons Plum - Smooth ^7/10

Comments: - Looking good in 100litre pot, will put into ground later.  Not fruiting yet as still a bit young. 

Planted: 2017

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Organic Link

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Davidson Plum NSW (Seedling) ^7/10

Comments: - Looks beautiful, it's a native.

Planted: 2012

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

My four Davidson Plums were amongst a host of other fruiting trees received from Daleys, when all except for the Davidsons Plums survived, where all the rest are doing really good.. Planted out the DPlums on the full moon, in a deep hole(even though the DPlums were only 150mm high) prepared the soil with light dressing of dynamic lifter mixed in with auger, then mulched with dry grass/hay.. Maybe the DPlums don't like the treated water of our town, or the amount of water we gave them, every other tree planted on the same day is doing really well, the minature Yellow Guava already has fruit of 10 - 15 mm, the New Guinea Custard Apple has grown about 300mm. Any advice on the Davidson Plum problem would be good to receive.. They are planted in a sloping area with full sun from 10Am thru 2-3Pm, soil is rocky, with friable soil to 400mm, then clay for approx 600mm..

Governors Plum - Select

Planted: 2002

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Org Xtra

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: None used.

Organic Status:Organic

Davidsons Plum - QLD

Planted: 2015

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Davidson Plum NSW

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Plum Pine (Seedling) ^4/10

Comments: - for its fruit

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control: none

Organic Status:Organic

Question: how long till it fruits, I have the dwarf variety

Davidsons Plum - QLD

Comments: - this is great for jams 

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Davidsons Plum - Smooth ^10/10

Comments: -

Davidsonia johnsonii 

Height 3 mts (31/01/2013)

Height 4 mts (29/11/2017)
I planted this because i wanted to taste the fruit . No sign of any fruit yet (31/01/2013) .

No fruit yet , I am beginning to think it might never fruit .  I am sure I planted it more than 10 years ago .

Planted: 2003

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn, Winter, Spring

Fertiliser or Organics Used: low phosphorous

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Yearly, Winter, Spring

Davidsons Plum - QLD ^10/10

Comments: -

The tree has had fruit . It loves native fertiliser but bust be low phosphorus . I experimented with some well aged cow manure and some blood and bone . A lot of leaves are burned IE: phosphorus toxicity . Dont use anything with high phosphorus content on natives . 

Planted: 2010

Height 3.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Fertiliser or Organics Used: low phosphorous

Spicezee - Nectarine x Plum (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

   Heard about this fruit tree from one of Tom Spellman's excellent YouTube videos for Dave Wilson Nursery. He raves about it, and from what I've read, it's certainly worth raving about. Bought this as a potted tree rather than a bare root tree, and planted it in a garden bed in late October 2017 (Gold Coast). I prepared the bed with compost, chicken poop compost, and Dynamic Lifter, and watered the tree in with a healthy dose of Seasol. The entire bed has a thick layer of cane mulch.

   It has thrived, and at present (Jan 2018) it's about one metre tall. As with all my other trees, it will be pruned regularly so it grows no taller than 150-180cm. It's self-pollinating, but there are plum and nectarine trees nearby to perhaps give it a boost with some cross-pollinating.

   I fertilise with varying ratios and amounts of Dynamic Lifter or Rooster Booster, sulphate of potash, and blood and bone at the beginning of spring, summer and autumn. I also give fortnightly foliar sprays of a diluted solution of Seasol, Powerfeed for flowers and fruit, soluble sulphate of potash, and Epsom salts during the non-dormant months.

   I use a soil moisture meter, and water as necessary.

   If the tree continues at its current growth rate, I'm hoping it will be strong enough and the root structure developed enough that I can leave a few fruit on next season to taste.

Planted: 2017

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Two plum and three nectarine trees

Pest Control: Occasional Eco-Neem spray, and copper spray during dormancy. When fruiting the fruit will be bagged against fruit fly.

Organic Status:Partially Organic