Collected Wild Plum

buzzy

Hi everyone i have just collected a wild plum,its just into spring here but the tree had already leafed out(where it was is being dug up for a property)should i defoliate it or something like that??any help would be great.

cHEERS cARL.

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FredL

hI cARL.....er, that is, Hi Carl!

OK, I'm no Walter Pall, but I have collected some of our Wild Plums here (P. angustifolia) and can tell you about my experience. I collected them last Spring and have done little but pot them in what passes for Bonsai Soil Mix with me and pretty much left them alone to adapt to potted life. I cut back the tops, mid Summer when they threatened to get totally out of hand, but that was about it.

They are doing very well. They seem to be very easy to collect and adapt to life in pots very quickly and easily. I will repot them in grow boxes next Spring and see what the root systems look like. There was one oddity when I collected them: it seemed that the fairly large thicket that I collected from was all one, single tree on a single root system. Most of them had practically no roots when I collected the, but came up as T shapes off a single large lateral root. From the looks of them, I think roots have developed very well since planting in pots. I'll find out in the Spring.

If it were me, I'd let my Plum(s) adapt to life in a pot before defoliating. Maybe I'm too cautious, but I let every thing I collect grow for a minimum of a year before doing much with it.

Regards, Fred

buzzy

Cheers Fred,
i know what you mean by a thicket being one trunk its very deciving when looking at them in the field.the one i have was growing in a paddok and the cows must have just eaten the fruit when i was fruiting then left it for next year it has about a 10cm trunk and is 45cm high but very dence.

regards carl

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FredL

Carl, your tree sounds quite nice. Would you like to show a picture? You can get some amazing feedback here. Sometimes good; sometimes, well..... I don't promise you that the feedback will be of any value, only that it will be amazing!

Fred