How To Grow Plum Trees From Seed, 8 Month Update!
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- How to grow Plum Trees from seed!
Another video in a new series about growing plum trees - or at least my second attempt at it! The first one failed because I transplanted the germinated plum seeds before the roots were large enough to adapt from the ziploc bag into soil. I've learned my lesson and I've restarted the series.
🔴This update marks the trees 8 month mark. In the last video, I topped him and repotted him, and have took him outside. I didn't include the other tree as it was looking more and more like a peach tree BUT in this video I am updating you on Both trees!
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1) One of the Saplings appears to have Peach tree leaves? Is it going to be a peach tree or do the leaves just look like a peach tree's leaves but likely a plum hybrid?
The plum seeds that I am using in this series were purchased from an organic grocery store but I think these may have been hybrids now that I see the two types of plums (one may be a peach tree) growing. I left the plums in the fridge for more than 3 extra months - a form of stratification, if you will.
After several months in the cold fridge (when they were near rotting) I removed the seeds. Then I used a small hammer to crack the seed shell and remove the actual seeds.
Next, I tested the seeds for viability by soaking them in water for about an hour to ensure the seeds sank (this usually means that they are viable seeds).
I then used the wet paper towel/ziploc bag method to create a mini greenhouse for them and placed them in a warm dark place.
Finally, after 3 weeks, 2 of them sprouted. I waited another week to ensure the roots were healthy enough and there was some green seed leaves emerging before I transplanted them.
It's been 3 months now and both are doing well.
One I topped for a test to see how it grows compared to a non-topped one.
I am excited to see how these plum trees grow over the next several months.
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How to grow Plum Trees from seed!
Another video in a new series about growing plum trees - or at least my second attempt at it! The first one failed because I transplanted the germinated plum seeds before the roots were large enough to adapt from the ziploc bag into soil. I've learned my lesson and I've restarted the series.
🔴This update marks the trees 8 month mark. In the last video, I topped him and repotted him, and have took him outside. I didn't include the other tree as it was looking more and more like a peach tree BUT in this video I am updating you on Both trees!
Thanks for watching!
PLEASE SUPPORT MY CHANNEL (if you wish) - when you shop through the following links, it helps me continue to put out more gardening content and allows me to pursue my passion!
Heirloom Tomato Seeds:
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Organic All Purpose Fertilizer:
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Other thoughts:
1) One of the Saplings appears to have Peach tree leaves? Is it going to be a peach tree or do the leaves just look like a peach tree's leaves but likely a plum hybrid?
The plum seeds that I am using in this series were purchased from an organic grocery store but I think these may have been hybrids now that I see the two types of plums (one may be a peach tree) growing. I left the plums in the fridge for more than 3 extra months - a form of stratification, if you will.
After several months in the cold fridge (when they were near rotting) I removed the seeds. Then I used a small hammer to crack the seed shell and remove the actual seeds.
Next, I tested the seeds for viability by soaking them in water for about an hour to ensure the seeds sank (this usually means that they are viable seeds).
I then used the wet paper towel/ziploc bag method to create a mini greenhouse for them and placed them in a warm dark place.
Finally, after 3 weeks, 2 of them sprouted. I waited another week to ensure the roots were healthy enough and there was some green seed leaves emerging before I transplanted them.
It's been 3 months now and both are doing well.
One I topped for a test to see how it grows compared to a non-topped one.
I am excited to see how these plum trees grow over the next several months.
Thanks again for watching!
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Thanks Rob. Really appreciate this series. My brother has a fruit tree and we think they're toka plums, so I'm going to give this a shot and see where it goes. Thanks again.
Definitely keep that plum/peach tree in this series! I think we all want to know what comes of it in a few years. It'd be super interesting to see if it produces some sort of peaches or if it is a plum with peach leaves, or if it's something in between! There's not much information on RUclips regarding what peaches/plums grown from seed turn into, so I think this will be great content to show on your channel.
PS. Love your videos, Rob.
Nilesh Nath Thank you and I definitely will!
Agree. I'm dying to know what fruit, if any, that hybrid plant produces!
Same here. I gotta know what that tree is going to give you.
Great result from a seed in 8 months! Can’t wait to see his progress 😁
Bye for now, Rachael
Rachael’s Homemade Life Thanks Rachel! I hope it continues to do well!
On seeing the seedlings, my hunch is that those black plums that you got the seeds from is a variety called Ruby Queen. I used to have one, but it was not disease resistant enough to hold up here in South Georgia for very long. But it did live long enough to make some fruit, and the fruit looked very much like those plums that you got the seeds from. It's a popular variety for commercial orchards because it's relatively pest free and the dark skin hides bruising. Ruby Queen was one of the varieties that came out of the breeding program in Byron Georgia. It is part Chickasaw plum which is where it gets its pest resistance. It's cross fertile with it's sister variety, Black Ruby, and they are often planted together for pollination purposes. Black Ruby plums ripen earlier or later than its sister. I'm not remembering which. But they would not be packed together because of the different ripening times and because Black Ruby has yellow flesh. Both have a lot of Chickasaw plum in their pedigree, and I would totally expect some of the seedlings between them to look like Chickasaw plums.
As I mentioned on your other video, the plum will not be the same as the seed parent. It will be a plum, but half its genes will have come from a different plant. Also what genes it got from its mother were very much reshuffled in the sexual reproduction process. If all four of your plums were from the same variety, then judging from the seedling with the slender leaves, there is probably Chickasaw plum in the parentage of the tree. If so, that was bread in to give the tree extra disease resistance. Anyway, the tree looks good. It's probably a good five years away from bearing fruit if it can stand your climate over the long hall and if it gets enough chilling hours to bloom there. Most Asian plums nor the hybrids tend to last very long in the heat and humidity of South Georgia. They might do better in the dryer heat of Texas.
If you haven't done it yet, I would put that tree in the ground.
Yes, plums grow as far north as Nova Scotia so Texas may be a challenge for them. I would plant it in the shade, if I were you.
I know it can be tough getting a peach to pollinate a plum. I think that's what you have there and I am very curious to see what the fruit is going to look/taste like. You might be on to something. I hope you keep showing it TLC. It's a very special plant.
The trees look awesome Rob great job! I say keep it in this series so we can see what it turns into. Maybe its just a different variety of plum? Or a nectarine?
jake ament Will do Jake! Thank you!
Very cool. I going to try this with a plum mix that i bought at the store.
Definitely keep that plum/peach tree in this series!
Thank you so much 👍
The second tree can not and is not a peach tree if it came from a plum seed. It conceivably could be a hybrid between a plum and a peach, but I very much doubt it. The tree does not look unhealthy at all to me. In fact it looks healthier than the other tree. What it looks like to me is a Chickasaw plum tree. Many of the cultivated varieties of Chickasaw have that willowy look to them, and some of them. Chickasaws don't really make a tap root. They send out huge rhizome like root systems which sucker profusely and will form a thicket of connected clones if you let it. Seeing the more mature version of the tree makes me really confident that you started with hybrid fruit, and the vegetative characteristic of the Chickasaw parent to the hybrid variety has reasserted itself in the vegetative characteristics of the second baby plant. In the other plant I'm seeing some evidence of the sort of damage that the stem canker pathogen can cause in plum leaves. Hopefully it's not that and that if it is that it does not go into the stem, or it's curtains for that tree. The Chickasaw looking tree shows no signs of a pathogen at work. Chickasaw plums are much less prone to disease and are generally less fragile than their Asian cousins. Maybe the tree that looks like a Chickasaw plum will have more of the Chickasaw resistance to disease and still produce good fruit. (Actually I like the improved Chickasaw varieties very bit as much as the Asian varieties, but commercial growers have no use for them because they are too soft to ship. One can assume that both trees are very much Chickasaw hybrids with one taking after the Asian parent. Many Chickasaw hybrids are sterile to other hybrids, so these two trees may not be able to pollinize each other. You may have to bring a true Chickasaw plum into the yard to get pollination. Many online nurseries sell wild type Chickasaw seedlings. If you don't want to give space to a wild type tree, I have wild type scion that I can send you, and you can graft it into a branch of one of your trees. I also have scion of good improved Chickasaw varieties which are much easier to grow than Asian plums in hot and humid climate. I also have some extra stratified seeds from my Toole's Heirloom plum tree sitting in the refrigerator. God bless.
Well I don't think another tree is needed for pollination. As the other species in the Prunus genus, plums have hermaphroditic flowers and can thus cross pollinate
You making me think I have a peach tree but it looks more like your plum tree
Yess in nc about 98
Keep them both!
Not sure where you are in Texas l, but I'm in the Central Texas area, and I'm really wanting to grow an Italian plum/prune tree. It may be too hot, but then, hey...we're headed for that mini-ice age in 2030, so that may be in our favor. It's just supposed to get colder over the next 12 years, so trees that require chill hours to fruit may actually be viable!
Two more days till the Apple trees turn 32 months old!
Elijah Moses Yes sir!!
Hi!
Hi Noah!
just saw your new video, well hey neighbor from Louisiana here, just started my plum tree project, and only at germanation process yet Only 3 days into the germanation. So i was wondering whats 5555 fertelizer?? I know i'm not even close to worry about that yet, but i know and trust my little seeds will do good, and oneday i'll need that 5555 fertelizer.
dhoff it’s a balanced fertilizer that is 5-5-5. The 5’s being Nitrogen, potassium and calcium - or the NPK ratio for short. All fertilizers have three numbers listed on the bag or can. You’ll see ones with 10-0-0 or 2-5-10, etc. fish fertilizer is 5-1-1 as another example. I used half the recommended dose for several months of the 5-5-5 type.
How come you call it HIM??, normally it's SHE, but love watching your video thanks
Another great episode 👍
Is that a T.fortunei you got there, in the corner, by the chairs?
Maybe its a plum tree with peach leaves
NibbleNutz True - I’m hoping we know more within the next 6 months.
I have a small seedling growing from the root of a tree I got from Costco that never came back to life, it's only about 3 months old and in a huge pot from the root system of the larger tree. It's almost fall, should I wrestle the big pot inside?
Hey rob I have an apple tree about 4 feet tall or so and its growing great here in Florida. When should I top it? Its growing straight up with no side liters
BuuBeats if it’s 4 feet tall and has no side branching yet, I’d take somewhere between 6”-12” off the top at a strong node!
I had germination the seed first at refrigator ...2 until 3 week.. then sprout.. i put at pot with soil..but the leafs look curly..in my country have 2 season.. summer and rainy.. is that my plum tree gone be OK? Or i must put not full at the sun..
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Did the tree 🌳 ever make fruit.
wait for another month then decide
You keep saying "HE"?? It is bisexual! So it is a HESHE. LOL OR SHEHE to be less sexist. :)
Hmm got a peach tree from a plum seed. Looks like someone was messing around.