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Victoria Plums
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My Victoria plums are still very hard, yet they look to be getting ripe but when you press them they are still hard,I wounder if its because we have had such a dry summer, has anybody else had the same problem,my smaller Victoria plum tree ripened alright with picking them a little on the green side and ripening them inside by the way they were on the small side but the plums on the other tree are a lot larger could I pick them and ripen in the greenhouse.
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I have a Victoria Plum tree on my allotment plot. It's about 4m in width and height. I went today to pick the soft, more mature coloured fruit that released easy from their stems. These fruit made up less than 10% of the trees crop. So it sounds like you are not alone. I'm eager to pick more as the wasps are on the prowl - although thankfully they are largely occupied by the windfall of a neighbouring plots apple tree :-)
Kind regards.