I hadn't realised that the branches were torn. What a shame. Is it a Victoria plum? Ours used to bear very heavily - I used a collection of wooden props to hold the branches up when they got heavy.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well as it was sunny and warm I went for it and bought/used some wound heal too (which was suggested on a couple of sites). Salvaged about 5kilos of plums from the cut branches!
I think it's a Victoria Plum. I'll just have to thin the fruit even more next year (if it survives) as props are out of the question owing to rambunctious dogs!
You could suspend heavy branches from a central pole, lashed along the trunk if necessary.
Also worth (although I didn't bother this year and am now paying the price) thinning the fruit in high summer (late June probably) to leave one every couple of inches. This should give a smaller number of larger plums, same total weight but fewer stones, which is good for both the tree and the cook.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think it's a Victoria Plum. I'll just have to thin the fruit even more next year (if it survives) as props are out of the question owing to rambunctious dogs!
You could suspend heavy branches from a central pole, lashed along the trunk if necessary.
Also worth (although I didn't bother this year and am now paying the price) thinning the fruit in high summer (late June probably) to leave one every couple of inches. This should give a smaller number of larger plums, same total weight but fewer stones, which is good for both the tree and the cook.
Just bought a plum tree and have it in a large pot I do not want it to grow too tall can I take the top of so that it will bush outward