Re: prune tree
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: prune tree
- From: N* S*
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:04:47 -0800
Jerry, here's an idea for you -- late next winter, look for the California
Rare Fruit Growers scion wood exchange meeting in your area. Go to the
meeting, get scion wood of a couple of different prunes (or plums if they
cross-pollinate prune which I would expect they would), and have them teach
you how to graft the scion wood onto your tree. That way, you wll have the
pollinator growing on the same tree and you wll have two or more varieties
which will increase not only your chances of having the original variety
bear well, but also the new varieties.
Nan
>Over 20 years ago, when I bought my home in Oakland, California I inherited
>a prune tree of unknown variety. The tree has never borne heavily, almost
>certainly because of the lack of a pollinator nearby. I've never been able
>to identify the variety but it is just beginning to bloom now. Is there
>anyone in my area with a prune tree setting bloom now who would allow me to
>cut off a large branch to serve as a cross-pollinator that I could hang in
>my tree?
>Jerry Heverly, Oakland, CA
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Nan Sterman
San Diego County California
Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
