2021 - Hot, dry spring. 5/18-21 all plums in full bloom. 5/27 four nights freezes 24-30 deg. No fruit. Decided to cut down tree as the overgrown and split grafts of LaCrescent and Underwood are not getting any better. Both of those varieties leaves continued to be healthier than the other plums however. But the continued lack of fruit due to spring frosts and/or pollination issues makes me wonder if it just isn't viable to grow plums here. Removing this tree did open up this area so hopefully the better air circulation will be better for the other plum trees.

2019 - Good bloom, no fruit, healthy leaves.

2018 - Good bloom - no fruit. Good 12-18" growth, many fruit spurs.  Need to graft onto a new rootstock.

2017 - Graft has overgrown rootstock scaffold it was grafted to. Maybe not long lived. Need to graft onto own rs.

2016 - Good blossoms but later (5/29), others about done. Timing with cherry plums. No fruit. Pruned 6/3.

2015 - In spite of poor fruit set year harvested a dozen small but very good yellow fleshed red plums!

2011 - TriPlum - grafted 3 varieties April 7 onto Rootstock - I think was from a planted cherry plum (would have had to be from Sapalta) in 1991, transplanted 2001, then 2004 to current spot. Small, yellow, large pit fruit, little flesh (but good), tough skin. 2011 cut off 3 main branches 1-2 ft from trunk. Rind/bark graft La Crescent (se) (Fedco scion), Underwood (ne) (Fedco scion), Gracious (w) (own tree fresh cut). 2 scions, 2-3 buds each. Left one original branch (should have cut off next year! But didn’t till 2017) which had a half dozen fruit. All grafts took and grew well.

Online Notes: Medium-to-large 2" dull red fruit. Firm sweet juicy golden-yellow semi-freestone flesh, very good for eating and cooking. Long picking season. Blooms earlier and longer than most hybrids. Long ripening season. Vigorous large spreading tree.

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