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Grafting to a nonfruiting plum tree

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Posted by segreenb 9b (My Page) on
Tue, Jan 6, 15 at 2:24

My parents planted a plum tree maybe five or six years ago, it fruited the first and maybe the second year we had it but it hasn't fruited since. It's about eight feet tall and the trunk is around 3-3.5" thick maybe more. We're unsure why it has stopped fruiting, and recently my dad pruned it quite aggressively (I think some branches may have been damaged so he removed them.)

Anyway does this sound like it would be a good candidate to graft onto? My concern is that since it isn't fruiting that maybe if I graft on some scions they wont fruit either because the rootstock is unhealthy. Also I read that all members of the Prunus genus are compatible, is this the case in practice? If so I would love to put cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and pluots on the same tree.

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Suggest that you use a bark graft and graft 3 compatible scions onto it. This will allow cross polination in case polination was the reason it was not fruiting. If the appropriate large branches are avalable, you can graft 5 or six grafts.

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Good suggestion by Charlie because it happens sometimes that nursery scionwood is reverted to juvenile like from a seed, then as it gets close to transition to adult will become able to self pollinate for 2 more years in the transition period. Then becoming fully adult, the pistil (in this period) able to do it's job of ensuring outcrossing. I have seen this happen often with cherry from seed and cherry cuttings and then researched it.

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