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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: manicscousers on September 03, 2008, 19:38:22

Title: victoria plums
Post by: manicscousers on September 03, 2008, 19:38:22
part of the harvest, most of them eaten now  ;D
Title: Re: victoria plums
Post by: tim on September 03, 2008, 19:55:45
Nothing like them. Except a Gage!
Title: Re: victoria plums
Post by: saddad on September 03, 2008, 20:20:02
Poor crop of both here this year  :-[
Title: Re: victoria plums
Post by: kenkew on September 03, 2008, 20:20:52
That's earlier than the ones I used to grow. My tastiest ones were picked on a chilly October morning.
Title: Re: victoria plums
Post by: star on September 03, 2008, 20:22:25
I would love to grow them. Can you get them on dwarfing rootstocks?

Lovely crop BTW Manics ;)
Title: Re: victoria plums
Post by: manicscousers on September 03, 2008, 20:23:58
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)
Title: Re: victoria plums
Post by: star on September 03, 2008, 20:25:15
Ooh thankyou hun, I will look into that.

Sounds like the birds had a great time while you were away :D
Title: Re: victoria plums
Post by: manicscousers on September 03, 2008, 20:31:11
star, we got ours from victoriananursery.co.uk
they have all sorts  :)
Title: Re: victoria plums
Post by: star on September 03, 2008, 20:32:32
Thanks for that, I will have a look :D
Title: Re: victoria plums
Post by: adeymoo on September 04, 2008, 16:35:18
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.