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Ping: Jake
Was wondering how your new Victoria plum is doing.
Mine has started to look much more healthy now the temperature has increased. Still quite wet and soggy here. Baz |
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Ping: Jake
Baz wrote:
Was wondering how your new Victoria plum is doing. Mine has started to look much more healthy now the temperature has increased. Still quite wet and soggy here. Don't jknow about Jake's, but ours (2 years old, I think) is not at all happy, with crinkley folded leaves and no fruit. :-( |
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Ping: Jake
wrote in news:a6nm5gFeb0U1
@mid.individual.net: Baz wrote: Was wondering how your new Victoria plum is doing. Mine has started to look much more healthy now the temperature has increased. Still quite wet and soggy here. Don't jknow about Jake's, but ours (2 years old, I think) is not at all happy, with crinkley folded leaves and no fruit. :-( Crinkly folded leaves. Could that be black or greenfly? My 2 cherry trees are riddled with blackfly at the tips on new growth. I have had to leave them that way until things warm up to prevent disease when I prune them. I think plum trees are the same, as in summer pruning to prevent disease. Best of luck. Baz |
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Ping: Jake
Baz wrote:
Don't jknow about Jake's, but ours (2 years old, I think) is not at all happy, with crinkley folded leaves and no fruit. :-( Crinkly folded leaves. Could that be black or greenfly? I think it probably is, yes. My 2 cherry trees are riddled with blackfly at the tips on new growth. Ours were last year, not so bad this year. Obv. all headed for the plum instead. |
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@mid.individual.net: Baz wrote: Don't jknow about Jake's, but ours (2 years old, I think) is not at all happy, with crinkley folded leaves and no fruit. :-( Crinkly folded leaves. Could that be black or greenfly? I think it probably is, yes. My 2 cherry trees are riddled with blackfly at the tips on new growth. Ours were last year, not so bad this year. Obv. all headed for the plum instead. Sickening, isn't it! Baz |
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Ping: Jake
Baz wrote:
My 2 cherry trees are riddled with blackfly at the tips on new growth. Ours were last year, not so bad this year. Obv. all headed for the plum instead. Sickening, isn't it! It is a bit. Last year we were happy to get 6 plums, with the expectation of more this year. And now we have zilch. :'( |
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: Baz wrote: My 2 cherry trees are riddled with blackfly at the tips on new growth. Ours were last year, not so bad this year. Obv. all headed for the plum instead. Sickening, isn't it! It is a bit. Last year we were happy to get 6 plums, with the expectation of more this year. And now we have zilch. :'( Same with our cherries. All we can do is prune them so the new growth grows outwards and not into the middle of the tree, and hope that next year will be kinder. Baz |
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Ping: Jake
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:24:59 GMT, Baz wrote:
Was wondering how your new Victoria plum is doing. Mine has started to look much more healthy now the temperature has increased. Still quite wet and soggy here. Baz It's looking just as expected. Growing nicely, holding at about 6 feet tall but no fruit this year. OTOH, enjoying strawberries and raspberries in abundance. Some cherries though not many but again expected as the cherry was last year a little twig that I'd got free from somewhere and didn't know what it was until it fruited this year. The blackcurrants have been disappointing though. I think apples and pears will be a washout. Oh yes! Was wondering why raspberries were disappearing from low down on the canes. Not nibbled bits, fruits cleanly removed. The culprit is resident cat! Always thought he was a bit of a fruit case! Cheers, Jake ======================================= Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes it's raining and sometimes it's not. |
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Ping: Jake
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:10:10 GMT, Baz wrote:
wrote in : Baz wrote: My 2 cherry trees are riddled with blackfly at the tips on new growth. Ours were last year, not so bad this year. Obv. all headed for the plum instead. Sickening, isn't it! It is a bit. Last year we were happy to get 6 plums, with the expectation of more this year. And now we have zilch. :'( Same with our cherries. All we can do is prune them so the new growth grows outwards and not into the middle of the tree, and hope that next year will be kinder. Baz Odd as, touch wood, I have found no white/green/black fly here at all this year. Lily beetle have been out in profusion and I've had to resort to Provado as I couldn't keep up with the squishing. No noticeable slug problem either which surprises me a bit though that may be down to the combo of healthy hog/frog/toad populations and an overdose of nematode treatment. Just had one dahlia stripped bare overnight and a little bit of hosta nibbling in the last few days. Cheers, Jake ======================================= Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes it's raining and sometimes it's not. |
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Jake wrote:
Odd as, touch wood, I have found no white/green/black fly here at all this year. Lily beetle have been out in profusion and I've had to resort to Provado as I couldn't keep up with the squishing. How strange. We've had hardly any lily beetle, but the lilies are all being eaten by slugs or snails instead. :-( |
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Ping: Jake
Jake wrote in
: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:24:59 GMT, Baz wrote: Was wondering how your new Victoria plum is doing. Mine has started to look much more healthy now the temperature has increased. Still quite wet and soggy here. Baz It's looking just as expected. Growing nicely, holding at about 6 feet tall but no fruit this year. OTOH, enjoying strawberries and raspberries in abundance. Some cherries though not many but again expected as the cherry was last year a little twig that I'd got free from somewhere and didn't know what it was until it fruited this year. The blackcurrants have been disappointing though. I think apples and pears will be a washout. Oh yes! Was wondering why raspberries were disappearing from low down on the canes. Not nibbled bits, fruits cleanly removed. The culprit is resident cat! Always thought he was a bit of a fruit case! Cheers, Jake ======================================= Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes it's raining and sometimes it's not. Not then, a carbariumfruitandnuticunpopularis. AKA a Cadburys fruit and nut case. Oh, thowse fwuit. Everyone's a fruit and nut case, go kwazy phor those lovely nuts and raisens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8H4IC9ttIU Baz |
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:25:16 GMT, Baz wrote:
Not then, a carbariumfruitandnuticunpopularis. AKA a Cadburys fruit and nut case. Oh, thowse fwuit. Everyone's a fruit and nut case, go kwazy phor those lovely nuts and raisens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8H4IC9ttIU Baz Yeah! But a raspberry eating CAT!!!!! He turned his nose up at salmon earlier, went out and came back with red fur around his mouth after nicking half-a-dozen. Cheers, Jake ======================================= Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes it's raining and sometimes it's not. |
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Ping: Jake
"Baz" wrote in message ... wrote in : Baz wrote: My 2 cherry trees are riddled with blackfly at the tips on new growth. Ours were last year, not so bad this year. Obv. all headed for the plum instead. Sickening, isn't it! It is a bit. Last year we were happy to get 6 plums, with the expectation of more this year. And now we have zilch. :'( Same with our cherries. All we can do is prune them so the new growth grows outwards and not into the middle of the tree, and hope that next year will be kinder. We have fruit on our apples but no plums at all -- -- http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/ |
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Ping: Jake
"Baz" wrote in message ... Jake wrote in : On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:24:59 GMT, Baz wrote: Was wondering how your new Victoria plum is doing. Mine has started to look much more healthy now the temperature has increased. Still quite wet and soggy here. Baz It's looking just as expected. Growing nicely, holding at about 6 feet tall but no fruit this year. OTOH, enjoying strawberries and raspberries in abundance. Some cherries though not many but again expected as the cherry was last year a little twig that I'd got free from somewhere and didn't know what it was until it fruited this year. The blackcurrants have been disappointing though. I think apples and pears will be a washout. Oh yes! Was wondering why raspberries were disappearing from low down on the canes. Not nibbled bits, fruits cleanly removed. The culprit is resident cat! Always thought he was a bit of a fruit case! Cheers, Jake ======================================= Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes it's raining and sometimes it's not. Not then, a carbariumfruitandnuticunpopularis. AKA a Cadburys fruit and nut case. Oh, thowse fwuit. Everyone's a fruit and nut case, go kwazy phor those lovely nuts and raisens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8H4IC9ttIU lol -- -- http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/ |
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Ping: Jake
Ophelia wrote:
We have fruit on our apples but no plums at all There are 3 apples on the pot-bound tiny 2-year old apple tree Nick bought for the communal bit of allotment then never planted. The tree in the garden at the back has 3 fruit on it. :-( |
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