My Edible Fruit Trees: Plum Trees NSW

Angelina Burdett - Plum ^10/10

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Just planted - brought from local nursery

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Pivot Multigro

Coe's Golden Drop - Plum

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Just planted - brought from local nursery

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Pivot Multigro

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Comments

Has Green gage been successfully fruited every recent year in your place?

Davidson Plum (Seedling) ^10/10

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Because it's a native, the looks certainly are special and I can't wait to taste the fruit one day!

Planted: 2009

Height 80 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

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Davidson\'s Plumb (Native) (Seedling) ^10/10

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Another advanced tree I transplanted mid August. Hasn't looked back.

Planted: 2009

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Multi-grafted Blood plum and Apricot (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: - I love blood plums, and the idea of multiple fruits on one tree - saves space!

Fruiting Months October

Planted: 2017

Height 55 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 0.5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Plum - A-Okay ^8/10

Comments: - Full of antioxidants 

Planted: 2021

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic Lifter, sulphate of potash

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: None so far 

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Plum (unknown) (Cutting)

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Spring 2011: Cuttings given to me by a friend of a friend (thakns heaps Brett!!) who inherited the parent tree with his farm... none of us know what sort they are but they are yummers! The first of the cuttings just appear to be coming to life.

Summer 2011: Out of 5 cuttings only 2 grew leaves (back in spring). One was dead as a dodo but the other 2 were still green - just sleepy?? So I scraped off some bark, dunked them in rooting hormone and repotted them. One is already starting to how signs of success!

Planted: 2011

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 4

Pollination: No

Plum - Damson

Plum - Victoria

Plum - Angelina ^10/10

Comments: - Tree growing in Katoomba. Excellent taste if fully ripened on tree.

Fruiting Months January

Planted: 2011

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 4 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Pest Control: Susceptible to brown rot. Requires copper spray in winter.

Organic Status:Organic

plum - angelina

Plum - Angelina Burdett ^7/10

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Plum - Coe’s golden drop (Grafted) ^8/10

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Tree growing in Katoomba. Juicy sweet plum. However, very susceptible to splitting due to rain and then getting infected with brown rot. 

Fruiting Months February

Planted: 2011

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Plum - Damson (Grafted)

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New

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Plum - Donsworth

Plum - Elephantheart (Grafted)

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New.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Plum - Greengage (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Tree growing in Katoomba. Excellent sweet taste. 

Planted: 2011

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 4 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Plum - GreenGage

Comments: - fond memories of feasting on these as a child, and watching as excess crop was preserved for the following months.

Plum - Jefferson (Grafted)

Comments: - This plum variety developed in the US  is rated highly so want to try it. However, the tree was mislabeled and turned out to be sloe. Received replacement tree in 2019.

Planted: 2015

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 4 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

plum - king billy

Plum - Licola

Plum - Luisa (Grafted) ^7/10

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Replanted in Katoomba in 2011. Growing very well and produced prolific fruit. I can now report that the taste is quite good. The plums are ready to eat when coloured half yellow and half red. If you try to wait till they are fully red, they will be overripe and starting to go off. They are relatively soft, very juicy, fairly sweet. The tree is vigorous so requires a good pruning each year.

Planted: 2010

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 40 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Aphids can sometimes be a problem. Also earwigs which nibble at the fruit. We sprayed pyrethrum one time when the aphids were too numerous to remove by hand, and haven't yet found a good solution to the earwigs, but the cro

Comments

Hi Edward, Has your tree fruited yet? I'm interested in planting this variety and would like to hear your thoughts on taste or even try before I buy! I'm around the corner from you so my conditions would be very similar. Great collection of fruit trees you have.

I transplanted the tree in Katoomba in 2011 to get a higher chill factor, although I believe it should also fruit in Sydney. It has grown very well last summer and I expect to get fruit next year. Will let you know then how it tastes.

Ed Do you recommend this Plum for Quakers hill area ? Thanks

This is supposed to be a low chill variety, so I think it would be fine for your area.

Plum - Mult Grafted (Grafted)

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Multi grafted plum, affectionatley called my Muti PLum for it mutant nature, rootstock Myrobolan, grafted with mariposa, regrafted with gulf gold and gulf ruby. Problamatic but interesting. Lesson in importance of thinning the fruit. Lost one of the grafts, not to worry grafted some of the broken bits onto new rootstock shoots - way to low, going to create new problem next year when the fruit hang on the ground.

The Chill Factor - end Aug/Sept 2010 - all the plums are flowering together, by early Sept. the Gulf Gold has set lots of fruit - but is still spot flowering.  The mariposa part of the tree is also flowering, what felt like a warm winter because the minimums were high was cooler because the maximums were lower - so the chill factor was higher!

I used mesh fruit fly exclusion bags on a couple of branches of the plums, the birds have been pecking at them today - so I picked the gulf ruby's.

Planted: 2004

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Plum - President (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Tree growing in Katoomba. Excellent slightly tart flavour. Must be patient not to pick till fully ripe to get best flavour, but not allow to overripen as it will lose flavour completely.

Fruiting Months February

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Plum - PurpleGage

Plum - Queen Garnet (Seedling) ^8/10

Comments: - I love stone fruits.

Planted: 2018

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Sudden impact by neutrog

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: None so far

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Comments

18 Dec 2019 doing an informal espalier on one and a standard tree like lollipop on another.

Plum - Red seedling (Seedling) ^9/10

Comments: - Grew this plant from seed of fruit labelled as Red Plum, which might actually be Amber Jewel. The tree has now fruited and the result is a firm, very dark red large plum with a good flavour. Crop has been limited, possibly due to need for cross-pollination, so have now planted other plum tree seedlings nearby for that purpose. Grows vigorously in Sydney.  Also grafted on in Katoomba where it produced a large crop of large plums.

Planted: 2015

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 4 Years from Seed

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control: Using fruit bags on individual plums.

Plum - Reine Claude de Bavay (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - This variety is reported to be very tasty and is popular in Europe. Does not appear to be available in Australia, but I was fortunate to obtain one from a private grower in Victoria. Tree being grown in Katoomba. First fruit in 2017 - very similar to green gage so I suspect it is not Reine Claude. Bought a scion of Reine Claude in 2021 from grower guaranteeing it is genuine, and grafted it on. 

Planted: 2012

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Plum - Santa rosa

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Plum - Santa Rosa