Topic: Aldi Plum

[Tin Shed]

Has anyone bought an Aldi plum tree?  I need to find out which rootstock they have used as I have a second trunk growing form the bottom which has spikes like a sloe!!!!!

[Robert_Brenchley]

That'll be growing from the rootstock. Cut it right off or it's liable to take over.

[Tin Shed]

It is definitely going to be chopped off  - can I do it now or should I wait until late spring when I prune the plum?

[Robert_Brenchley]

I'd take it straight off, but then I prune plums in winter. You can wait if you'd rather.

[Tin Shed]

Thanks - that's what I will do - can't think why I  hadn't noticed it before :o

[Jeanbean]

Hi Tin Shed.
Notice we are both in Essex.  :) How long ago did you buy the tree? Funnily enough, I went to Aldi yesterday and saw the Victoria Plum trees and was tempted. Just wondered how long it has taken for the extra trunk to grow?
JB

[Tin Shed]

Hi Jeanbean - I think I got the plum about three years ago, together witha morello cherry. The cherry has produced a wonderful crop from the beginning, but the plum has taken its time - only one plum last summer!
I think the extra trunk must have been there for at least a year - I am just amazed that I hadn't noticed it before and removed it!

[Deb P]

I had one in a pot until last year, it also sprouted from the rootstock exactly the same as yours! Sadly I neglected it over the summer (it got stuck in a corner where I forgot to water it  :-[) and I lost it entirely.... ::)