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Hi

Just had a yummy plum and have saved the stone. Now what?

Can i grow a plum tree from it?

Will it fruit?

Cambourne7

You can grow a plum from the stone Cam. but it will take years to get up to fruiting and there is no saying it will taste as good... Most plums are grafted cultivars.. can always give it a go!
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been few years cambourne7  did plum stone grow? im now gonna try to grow one!

go on try - and call it harriet lucy as it will grow with her  ;D

Quote from: saddad on October 18, 2006, 17:19:47
You can grow a plum from the stone Cam. but it will take years to get up to fruiting and there is no saying it will taste as good... Most plums are grafted cultivars.. can always give it a go!
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It's a very long shot it's true and it's also true that the grafting tells you that's likely to be the problem, but not technically specifically because of the grafting - even seedling plums tend to produce offspring different from their parents.

The cause of the problem really comes down to how many extremely selective choices were made in its history over thousands or tens of thousands of years.

Basically the more correct choices, the more it differs from the original wild plum(s). This means there are more ways the next choice can be a wrong'un and the more likely the offspring will end up way back towards the wild kind.

All the more complicated because our eur/asian plums are polyploid (hexaploid I think) - don't ask - I never have...

Apparently peaches are less highly bred and you might get a good one from only a few dozen tries!

It's always worth a try. This is precisely how many of our existing fruit varieties were produced.