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Stone fruit, genus Prunus.

Plums (also known as gages) are stone fruits, genus Prunus, sub-genus Prunus. They can be distinguished from other Prunus (.eg. cherries and peaches) by a terminal bud and solitary side buds. The flowers are in groups of 1-5 on short stems. The stone is smooth and the fruit has a single groove down one side. Mature fruit also have a dusty coating which is easily rubbed off.

The sub-genus contains a number of species. These are divided into Old World Plums; New World Plums, and . Apricot fruit have a velvet coating, and some authors consider them a separate sub-genus.

Use this tag for all questions about plums and gages. Use for questions about apricots.

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Why does my plum tree never come into fruit?

My mini tree is around 4 years old now. It had a mass of blossoms in the spring but they have all dried up into dead clumps. In fact this happens most years. What am I doing wrong?
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Planted plum seeds, now what?

I just planted plum seeds. All the instructions I found suggested one of two approaches: Put it in a bag in the fridge for 10-12 weeks, or Plant it in cold soil outdoors in late fall or early winter Both approaches suggested a clean (no plum…
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Why wait to lop off a bacterial canker?

There is what I think is bacterial canker on my young, multi-species fruiting plum tree. I bought it from a big box store a year ago and planted it, and I noticed this a few weeks ago. Assuming I'm right, and that this is in fact bacterial canker,…
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Plums half sweet and half sour

When I purchased my house last year I hoped that the tree with purple leaves in my front yard would produce fruit. Fortunately it has produced little plums about the size of a golf ball. This is my first experience owning a fruit tree so I apologize…
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Plum Glory tree seems to be dying

We bought a plum glory tree recently but it doesn't seem to be doing very well. It seemed perfectly happy when we bought it and it's started growing a few plums (They are still green). However since we moved it into a larger pot some of the leaves…
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Plum tree giving fruit during winter

I have a plum tree that usually gives fruit during summer. But today I've noticed something very strange: there are some fruits in it. The tree is even completely leafless as it usually is during winter, but it has some fruits and flowers. What…
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Gage tree leaves turned brown

I have an Oullins Golden Gage tree which is 3 years old. This year, many of the leaves have turned brown with some holes in them. I live in South West England, UK and this happened in early spring - please see photos. Grateful for any advice on what…
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Plum tree leaves not forming

Our usually well performing Lusia plum tree is having issues with forming new leaves. Half of the tree is doing just fine, upper parts. But the rest is like this: please help
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Plum tree - No leaves

The plum tree produced lot of fruits last season, but, there is no sign of any leaves yet this year. We are well in to spring (Auckland, NZ) and all I can see is a bare tree and some green growth on it. I initially tried to remove it by hand, but,…
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How to reduce plum harvest?

Is there a time-efficient (possibly chemical) way to reduce the number of plums generated during one season - while keeping the tree healthy? The intent is to keep the tree as a source of shadows, while avoiding the work of removing plums from the…
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Curled leaves on Jojo plum and something rot like in fruit

We have planted Jojo plum tree couple weeks ago. Some of tts leaves are curled and there is also something rot like in the fruit. I have not found any aphids in leaves. We have mostly sandy soil and water quite often. What is going on?
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Undersized fruit

My plum tree is about 10 years old and has fruited for a few years. It produces loads of fruit, loses a lot before ripening, but they remain the size of a very large olive and I don't know how to encourage them to get bigger. I don't feed very…
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Identifying a potential Greengage Plum tree

We think that this is a plum tree, but we are not 100% sure and just wanted to confirm that there aren't any poisonous look-alikes out there before we taste one. From the small size of the fruit we think that they might be Greengage plum trees. The…
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How to graft a plum tree

these days I am going to prune my plum tree, I will perform the pruning following the guidelines of this article that talks about pruning a plum tree (it is in Spanish but nothing that Google translator cannot solve;)). The prune plum is a very…
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