plums?

[gardentg44]

my plums have started to develop brown marks on them.

does anyone know what they are?

had fruit tree grease around the trunk,

and been sprayed with bugclear twice,any ideas???.

what can i do ???

[gardentg44]

[adrianhumph]

Hello gardentg44,
                             Afraid I can`t help you with identifying the problem,  ??? but your plums will definitely need thinning out soon, look at the RHS site, advice section for details on this. If you do not do this you will not get good size fruit & also run the risk of boughs breaking under the weight of fruit.

                                                                                 Adrian.

[gardentg44]

any fruit growers out there?

[PurpleHeather]

Had it with the greengages last year but one and was told that it was a fungal problem, too late to save the skins and was advised to spray an antifungicide autumn and spring. To clear all the leaves and dropped fruit & destroy so that it did not re-infect the tree.

The greengages were only marked on the skin.  the insides were OK  but greengages are only slightly easier to peel than grapes. We ate some of the lesser marked ones, spitting out the skins (because we are common).

We did spray but the frost killed all the buds last year. We sprayed again any way and this year it looks like they are clear.

Dunno if missing a years harvest has helped or the spraying.

My plum tree was not infected and is nearby it always gets loads of plums and we leave them all on, they are as big as eggs when they are ready to eat which is good enough for me. The wind seems to do rather a good job of thinning out.

I would suggest if you are thinning that it would be a good way to remove the worst infected fruit.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I can't put a name to this one but I've seen similar marks and it doesn't affect eating quality. All my Cambridge Gage rotted on the tree last year! After the last two summers, it makes sense for there to be a lot more fungal disease about than normal.

[small]

Although I no longer have plum trees, my prolific victorias had this problem to varing degrees, we just ate them as normal and you didn't really notice the brown bits. I agree with the thinning warning though, I lost my best tree when it just fell apart under the weight of the crop one year.

[Tee Gee]

Only a guess this one but food for thought;

I know with some leafy plants if droplets of water land on the leaves and the sun shines on them they scorch/burn the leaves, i.e. leaving the leaves speckled with pale brown spots.

Could something similar have happened to your plums?

As Purple heather said 'it was only skin deep' so perhaps only time will tell if this is the case here.

Get back to us when the fruit ripens with your findings.

[dtw]

my plums have started to develop brown marks on them.

ooh matron.


Sorry, I couldn't resist.  ;D

[gardentg44]

my plums have started to develop brown marks on them.

ooh matron.


[Sorry, I couldn't resist.  ;D]

nice one DTW ;D ;D