The Annual Plum tree Gamble

[Cappy]

Some years we are so full of plums we cant give em away some years just a hand full. The stage is set for this years gamble. Any predictions??

http://cappyandpegody.blogspot.com/2015/01/feast-or-famine-only-time-will-tell.html

 

[Grandpa]

Good luck

 

[Cappy]

Time will tell

 

[Hikenhunter]

Sounds like plums are cyclic sorta like grouse and woodcock.

 

[ponderosa]

My apple trees seem to go every-other-year. Are plum trees like that?

 

[Cappy]

The thing with this particular plum is purely weather related. They will do great 3 or 4 years in a row but a late hard(for us) freeze takes out all the small growing plums. Thats what happened last year. The first week of march we had a 10 hour period below 30 degrees. That is a late hard freeze for us. It took out all the plums and lemons too. Both were too small to take that hard a freeze. Oranges and grapefruit were not affected since they are at that stage larger fruit.

 

[Jeffofnc]

You might try misting them if the weatherman call for a cold snap. That's what the peach growers around here do. The water sticks to the fruit and the keeps the it above freezing until the water freezes.