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Plums beginning to go purple to soon (?)

REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
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I have a dwarf plum in a pot. The plums are beginning to go purple, but are still small and hard. There is also amber coloured sticky stuff oozing out of some of them. Any ideas? I am afraid that because of a really bad bout of Covid followed by a bereavement, I did not feed and water it as much as I should have.

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Do you have a photo?
  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    edited June 2022
    Thanks.
    No maggot. The colour is more purple/plum coloured than brown as in the photo. Sorry the second one is out of focus. The orange dot is the resinous stuff. Some of the plums are green, but hard with shrivelling skin. Very disappointing. I lost all my cherries to the birds because otherwise occupied organizing a funeral etc when I should have been netting them, but I was taking consolation (from the loss of cherries) in the very promising proto-plums.


  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    Not terribly conclusive then...! It could be lack of watering, then, I suppose, but I have been on top of things for the last 6 weeks or so. It probably needs potting on, really. It's a dwarf one, so a pot is ok, and it is in quite a big one, but... if it goes in a much bigger pot, it will not be moveable, which husband will not be pleased about (for grass cutting purposes)! Will have to think on this. But that's something for later, of course.

    Thanks very much, @pansyface
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Is the brown end hard or soft?  It looks a bit like brown rot fungus...  

    Re the blobs of resin:  my Victoria plum often had some.  I wouldn't worry about those, unless there are lots on most of the fruit.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    I guess it could be. As I said, the colouration was not brown but purple, as if the plums were trying to ripen. Sorrry I chucked it out. Could go and squeeze another when I get home tonight! It feels like there is nothing I can do, really.
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