Topic: victoria plums

[manicscousers]

part of the harvest, most of them eaten now  ;D

[tim]

Nothing like them. Except a Gage!

[saddad]

Poor crop of both here this year  :-[

[kenkew]

That's earlier than the ones I used to grow. My tastiest ones were picked on a chilly October morning.

[star]

I would love to grow them. Can you get them on dwarfing rootstocks?

Lovely crop BTW Manics ;)

[manicscousers]

loads of them dropped off while we were away, the birds and things had a field day  ;D
don't know if victorias come on dwarfing, we have a new one, called czar, on a dwarf..no fruit this year (first year)

[star]

Ooh thankyou hun, I will look into that.

Sounds like the birds had a great time while you were away :D

[manicscousers]

star, we got ours from victoriananursery.co.uk
they have all sorts  :)

[star]

Thanks for that, I will have a look :D

[adeymoo]

Plums can come on Pixy rootstock and routine pruning as a spindletree or pyramid can keep them to about 7-8 feet high. Spindletree training and pruning is the commercial way of achieving maximum yield whilst being able to plant the trees very close together.