Plums are delicious I've been growing them since I was 10 I'm 43 now. Started in Pennsylvania for 31 yrs now Georgia the past 12 the only thing you got to watch for is black knot fungus
@@bobborlog1677and that fungus grows through soil or from where..?? And how to remove or control that fungus..?? I have planted 1 santa rosa plum tree and 2 mythl japanese plum trees and here temperatures go as high as 45 degrees in extreme summers
We have had had our weeping santa rosa in the ground just 1 year and seeing this video makes me quite giddy! :) We are up to 11 different fruit tree varieties in our backyard and some are finally coming of age to bear fruit. I've been on RUclips watching various videos and stumbled across yours and its made me quite excited for what I hope the future holds for our sweet weeping santa rosa plum! :)
sounds great, that's like our own little project too, to be able plant as many fruit trees as possible in our little yard, we like the idea of being able to just pick food in our own backyard, very rewarding comes harvest season .. best of luck on all your fruit trees!
The videography and soundtrack is awesome. So often when people post videos like this they pan so fast through the scene that everything is a blur. They forget that the digital cameras cannot focus as fast as the human eye. It looks like you guys have prior experience in making these videos and it shows. I recently started my own home orchard. I have 2 Santa Rosa Plums and a couple of Methley Plums. I get impatient waiting for the trees to grow and produce fruit so videos like yours help keep me enthused. Thanks for sharing.
I just planted a potted Ox Heart and a Santa Rosa plum in my orchard. They are about 15 feet apart. I put them in a hole twice as large as the container. I mixed a little lime and bone meal in the bottom of the hole. I fertilized them with 5-10-10, yesterday, a month after they were planted. They bloomed this year but are not old enough to produce any fruit. They are growing well. I will prune them next January.
Never heard/grown an Ox Heart plant before. Best of luck growing your Santa Rosa plum fruit tree! We have around four mature plum trees in our yard, and all of them produce a lot of plums fruits, year after year, and they are delicious.
I Have two Santa Rosa plum trees, one is 21 years old, never pruned it. i love the plums but the squirrels eat more than I do. But they were there first. thanks for the video.
we have too much plums that we could eat, so seeing the squirrels having some in our backyard is okey with us .. but our dog usually objects with our decision to let the squirrels roam free, snacking in our yard ... so really, we don't know who to side, LOL, our dog or the squirrels, its a battle between them, we try not to intervene. our dog says its her yard, the squirrels think otherwise :-) we heard our dog scolding a squirrel or two again today for being in her yard again, ahaha
Queste susine le conosco bene e sono ottime, specialmente quando non sono troppo numerose sulla pianta e quando non piove. Sono veramente gustose. Ce l'ha mio zio e abbiamo spesso fatto raccolti abbondanti!
Good looking trees! I noticed you have some pretty beefy supports by your trees. Did you plant the trees with the supports or add them in later? Thanks
Thank you! Many of the tree supports in our fruit trees where added later on, mostly when our fruit trees were fruiting, and we felt that the branches and trunk cannot handle the additional weight of the fruits. Sometimes, we added post (parallel to the tree trunk) to stabilize the tree, and prevent the fruit tree from bending or breaking.
Majority of our plums are planted in full sun, some tall trees nearby but far enough that they don't really shade our Santa Rosa plum trees. The one plum tree that is partly shaded during the day because of a huge maple tree is bearing fruits but not doing as well as the other plum trees we have.
on the one branch you should consider doing an air-layer. that way you can create another plum tree and prune away that y, Because it will likely break eventually
we don't not spray insecticides / pesticides .. we try to control the ants from the base trunk, by not having them have the access, they do manage to go up sometimes. there is time of the year that we fertilize using natural organic manure by adding them to the soil / ground
Just my opinion. But that last plum tree in the bucket, you should trade it for another type of fruit tree. Apple, apricot, pear. Anything else. Growing up we had a plum tree so large, that you couldn't wrap your arms around the trunk. We used to climb the tree and hang out in it, it was so large. Every year we would get hundreds and hundreds of pounds of fruit, to the point that would give them away 20 lbs at a time. We'd give bags, upon bags, upon bags to our neighbors. And yes we would get sick of plums. Even they got sick of them. It was maybe a 50 year old tree. So trust me when I say, that you should trade that last plum tree for something/ anything else. or sell it. I just bought a plum tree, so that I can plant when I buy my land. And yes, I "Only" bought one. Because I know how large they can get, and the amount of fruit they'll produce. I know you don't see it now, but you will in a couple of years. You'll be over run with plums, they'll be everywhere. And they fall faster than you can pick them up. Making a mess on the floor, and inviting flies. Good luck with your three trees. What ever you do, DON'T plant that fourth one. Or do if you really want to. I just speak from personnel experience in dealing with an over abundance of plums.
I totally agree with you on this one! we sure have way too much plum trees already, one or two is perfect .. we been thinking about trading the 4th one, but most people have plums in their own yard and don't want to add anymore .. we love peaches the most, we could never have enough peaches
There are other variety of plum trees that need to cross-pollinate, but I believe that a Santa Rosa plum tree (like the plum variety that we have) is a self-pollinator, but we do have multiple Santa Rosa plum trees in the property, so we cannot attest that it is indeed a self-pollinating plum variety.
My Santa Rosa tree tends to dry up! Leaves in Spring show sign of dying. It gave fruits 3 years regularly. I did not prune it. What could be the reason?
Most likely the weather? Also, our plum trees perform the best (bear plum fruits) when we water them regularly during the springtime all through summer time.
Hi, during the earlier years of our plum trees (young fruit trees back then), we hardly got any fruits harvest from our fruit trees (including our plum trees), as years go buy we gradually increase our harvest. If you have mature fruit trees and they are not bearing fruits as expected, some possible causes: maybe they are lacking bee pollination, or the weather can become a factor too.
they can possibly grow and bear fruit in a pot, we had peach tree that were on a pot for couple of years .. but after few years you might need to transplant it into bigger pot because it will get root-bound and have it some space for growing, it might still be limiting (when it comes to growth) though compare to when it is planted in the ground
Yes, the plum fruits would definitely be a lot bigger :-) We have more than one plum tree, and we were able to compare the size of the plums we harvested one year, plums harvested from a pruned plum tree, and plums from a hardly pruned plum tree.
If the plums are far from being ripe, and they start dropping, it is possible that the plum tree needs water, or the wind was so strong, or the weather was so hot, or animals (squirrels and birds) are trying to get to them. These were just some of the reasons (we experience) why our plums fall to the ground even when they were not ripe.
I have ultra dwarf apricots and it produce lots of fruits first year but after I trimmed them, only a few branches produced fruit. Is there a specific way of pruning apricots? Is there such thing as a fruiting branch?
For our type of plum (the Santa Rosa plum), we wait until they are dark purple and when we lightly press the plum fruit we can feel some softness in the fruit-flesh underneath the skin, they are no longer hard to the touch.
sometimes, we harvest some of the plums while they are not fully ripe but still dark purple color, they ripen after harvest as well. Basing on our experience, our Santa Rosa plums ripen a lot quicker at room temperature, and a lot slower ripening phase when refrigerated.
Matthew Miller Jr. you may get larger fruit if you remove some of the fruit when it’s the size of a small grape... then the tree would have more energy to put into developing larger, sweeter plums with the ones that are left. Most professional growers thin the fruit to increase quality. Try it next year :)
the trees don't look like they were trained properly from the beginning. You should decide if your going to train them to a central leader or open, the earlier the better. They look healthy!
I just planted a Santa Rosa, but oh my gosh they grow soo big! Well I don't think mine will get that big, my soil is not as good as yours apparently! Mine only grew about 6 inches las year :(
hopefully it will find you hope with your plum tree by letting you know our soil is not very good too, we have clay type of soil, doesn't drain very well, we did put store-bought potting soil around it, just to enhance the soil a little bit
personally, I think each fruit have its own unique taste, so I cannot say that plums are better than apple or cherry, or wise versa. It's like trying to compare apple and oranges, you cannot really compare, they are too different type of fruits. Apples and cherries are yummy, so are plums, in my opinion.
I have almost 200 redbeauty Plum trees in my garden here in Pakistan, but they are not producing fruits is I expect from them, the trees are 10 years old, is there specific way or spray for producing good fruit, because when there is buds open and become small fruit suddenly the trees are fall down whole of small fruit, please guide
We usually just water them regularly once the flower blossoms and/or small fruits started to develop. Having the presence for bees or honeybees to pollinate the flowers or blossoms helps with our plum tree producing plums or fruits.
aside from birds, squirrel love them too :-( and we have squirrels hanging around just waiting to harvest our fruits, but we have so much of them every year, we just let them have some of the plums
For the plum fruit, squirrel usually eat the once that falls in the ground. Although, occasionally they roam around the plum trees, but we tried to make sure that birds and squirrels stay away from our peach trees and Rainier cherry trees.
Backyard horticulture has to be one of the great joys of owning property.
I bought 6 plum trees at a recent Earth Day fundraiser, now I know what to expect.Thanks
The one who’s disliked this beautiful plum tree video , they must be Jules off this .
Nice job guy s. Keep up the good job .
Im 13 and this makes me wanna grow fruit trees in my backyard. Those plums look too succulent
Plums are delicious I've been growing them since I was 10 I'm 43 now. Started in Pennsylvania for 31 yrs now Georgia the past 12 the only thing you got to watch for is black knot fungus
@@bobborlog1677and that fungus grows through soil or from where..?? And how to remove or control that fungus..?? I have planted 1 santa rosa plum tree and 2 mythl japanese plum trees and here temperatures go as high as 45 degrees in extreme summers
the plants become more beautiful and fresh
Thats awesone, very productive tree
We have had had our weeping santa rosa in the ground just 1 year and seeing this video makes me quite giddy! :) We are up to 11 different fruit tree varieties in our backyard and some are finally coming of age to bear fruit. I've been on RUclips watching various videos and stumbled across yours and its made me quite excited for what I hope the future holds for our sweet weeping santa rosa plum! :)
sounds great, that's like our own little project too, to be able plant as many fruit trees as possible in our little yard, we like the idea of being able to just pick food in our own backyard, very rewarding comes harvest season .. best of luck on all your fruit trees!
It takes like 6 years to give fruit
Since 8 years has gone by. How long did it take to get plums on your 1 year tree?
A WHOLE DECADE LATER how is your tree doing time flies
That thing is smoking crazy!
The videography and soundtrack is awesome. So often when people post videos like this they pan so fast through the scene that everything is a blur. They forget that the digital cameras cannot focus as fast as the human eye. It looks like you guys have prior experience in making these videos and it shows. I recently started my own home orchard. I have 2 Santa Rosa Plums and a couple of Methley Plums. I get impatient waiting for the trees to grow and produce fruit so videos like yours help keep me enthused. Thanks for sharing.
Wow that's a lot of plums . Well done
I just planted a potted Ox Heart and a Santa Rosa plum in my orchard. They are about 15 feet apart. I put them in a hole twice as large as the container. I mixed a little lime and bone meal in the bottom of the hole. I fertilized them with 5-10-10, yesterday, a month after they were planted. They bloomed this year but are not old enough to produce any fruit. They are growing well. I will prune them next January.
Never heard/grown an Ox Heart plant before. Best of luck growing your Santa Rosa plum fruit tree! We have around four mature plum trees in our yard, and all of them produce a lot of plums fruits, year after year, and they are delicious.
Beautiful!
Awesome amazing beautiful
I Have two Santa Rosa plum trees, one is 21 years old, never pruned it. i love the plums but the squirrels eat more than I do. But they were there first. thanks for the video.
we have too much plums that we could eat, so seeing the squirrels having some in our backyard is okey with us .. but our dog usually objects with our decision to let the squirrels roam free, snacking in our yard ... so really, we don't know who to side, LOL, our dog or the squirrels, its a battle between them, we try not to intervene. our dog says its her yard, the squirrels think otherwise :-) we heard our dog scolding a squirrel or two again today for being in her yard again, ahaha
It looks so beautiful... I can't wait for mine to be ready. Only like 5 of them is changing color.. Maybe one more month... It will be ready
Ohh man these grow big. Even with pruning
Thanks for showing this video
Good job , beautiful fruits.
dream tree
Most delicious fruit in the world. Nothing is better than SRP. Nothing!
I say the best type of PLUM in the world is the Santa Rosa Plums, I think peaches, nectarines, yellow mango are delicious too :-)
Thanks for sharing. Your trees look beautiful.
A wonderful grade!
2:22 Looks like a rootstock?
Planning to buy this variety. Thanks for sharing the video.
Queste susine le conosco bene e sono ottime, specialmente quando non sono troppo numerose sulla pianta e quando non piove. Sono veramente gustose. Ce l'ha mio zio e abbiamo spesso fatto raccolti abbondanti!
they look delicious
Good looking trees! I noticed you have some pretty beefy supports by your trees. Did you plant the trees with the supports or add them in later? Thanks
Thank you!
Many of the tree supports in our fruit trees where added later on, mostly when our fruit trees were fruiting, and we felt that the branches and trunk cannot handle the additional weight of the fruits. Sometimes, we added post (parallel to the tree trunk) to stabilize the tree, and prevent the fruit tree from bending or breaking.
Beautiful Purple Plum trees, these plums can grow up in Asia countries?
are your Santa Rosa plum trees partly shaded all day like in the video? They seem to do pretty well.
Majority of our plums are planted in full sun, some tall trees nearby but far enough that they don't really shade our Santa Rosa plum trees. The one plum tree that is partly shaded during the day because of a huge maple tree is bearing fruits but not doing as well as the other plum trees we have.
Wow what a nice tree, where exactly did you get this tree though,,
we bought this tree as a bare-root plant as a young tree in one of the store
+GardenersLand wow for a bare root plant ,
It looks amazing ,,, you guys did a good job nurturing it..
Better then other plum.....
totally agree! Santa Rosa plum is (in our opinion) the best tasting plums
Is it the seedling came from costco garden?
we purchased bare root fruit trees (plum tree)
yes, at Costco :-)
wow
on the one branch you should consider doing an air-layer. that way you can create another plum tree and prune away that y, Because it will likely break eventually
Is it Sakura Plum?
Do you get holes in the leaves?
never noticed holes in the leaves
I wish I had a plum tree
how much do you fertilize and when and do you spray for bugs - if so what pest control ?
we don't not spray insecticides / pesticides .. we try to control the ants from the base trunk, by not having them have the access, they do manage to go up sometimes. there is time of the year that we fertilize using natural organic manure by adding them to the soil / ground
Just my opinion. But that last plum tree in the bucket, you should trade it for another type of fruit tree. Apple, apricot, pear. Anything else. Growing up we had a plum tree so large, that you couldn't wrap your arms around the trunk. We used to climb the tree and hang out in it, it was so large. Every year we would get hundreds and hundreds of pounds of fruit, to the point that would give them away 20 lbs at a time. We'd give bags, upon bags, upon bags to our neighbors. And yes we would get sick of plums. Even they got sick of them. It was maybe a 50 year old tree. So trust me when I say, that you should trade that last plum tree for something/ anything else. or sell it. I just bought a plum tree, so that I can plant when I buy my land. And yes, I "Only" bought one. Because I know how large they can get, and the amount of fruit they'll produce. I know you don't see it now, but you will in a couple of years. You'll be over run with plums, they'll be everywhere. And they fall faster than you can pick them up. Making a mess on the floor, and inviting flies. Good luck with your three trees. What ever you do, DON'T plant that fourth one. Or do if you really want to. I just speak from personnel experience in dealing with an over abundance of plums.
I totally agree with you on this one! we sure have way too much plum trees already, one or two is perfect .. we been thinking about trading the 4th one, but most people have plums in their own yard and don't want to add anymore .. we love peaches the most, we could never have enough peaches
Does a plum tree needs another plum tree to bear fruits?
There are other variety of plum trees that need to cross-pollinate, but I believe that a Santa Rosa plum tree (like the plum variety that we have) is a self-pollinator, but we do have multiple Santa Rosa plum trees in the property, so we cannot attest that it is indeed a self-pollinating plum variety.
My Santa Rosa tree tends to dry up! Leaves in Spring show sign of dying. It gave fruits 3 years regularly. I did not prune it. What could be the reason?
Most likely the weather?
Also, our plum trees perform the best (bear plum fruits) when we water them regularly during the springtime all through summer time.
My trees missing fruits can you guide me why missing fruit
Hi, during the earlier years of our plum trees (young fruit trees back then), we hardly got any fruits harvest from our fruit trees (including our plum trees), as years go buy we gradually increase our harvest. If you have mature fruit trees and they are not bearing fruits as expected, some possible causes: maybe they are lacking bee pollination, or the weather can become a factor too.
is it healthy for a peach tree to be in a pot! i have one and it has the first flower on it but i dont have space to plant it on the ground?
they can possibly grow and bear fruit in a pot, we had peach tree that were on a pot for couple of years .. but after few years you might need to transplant it into bigger pot because it will get root-bound and have it some space for growing, it might still be limiting (when it comes to growth) though compare to when it is planted in the ground
The Japanese thin the blooms so the fruit gets bigger, then they come back after fruiting and thin some more.
I just tasting plum WoW very delicious... 😋😋😋
yummy! ;)
Just think how big and beautiful those plums would be if you would thin them out, correctly.
Yes, the plum fruits would definitely be a lot bigger :-)
We have more than one plum tree, and we were able to compare the size of the plums we harvested one year, plums harvested from a pruned plum tree, and plums from a hardly pruned plum tree.
Why are my plumb trees dropping their fruit early? The plumbs are about 1 1/2 “ long and they are dropping from the tree. What can I do?
If the plums are far from being ripe, and they start dropping, it is possible that the plum tree needs water, or the wind was so strong, or the weather was so hot, or animals (squirrels and birds) are trying to get to them. These were just some of the reasons (we experience) why our plums fall to the ground even when they were not ripe.
I have ultra dwarf apricots and it produce lots of fruits first year but after I trimmed them, only a few branches produced fruit. Is there a specific way of pruning apricots? Is there such thing as a fruiting branch?
We currently are not growing apricot tree in our backyard, don't have a ton of experience with apricot trees because of it
i planted 2 trees a few years ago, i have golfball size plums, my question is when can they be picked month.
For our type of plum (the Santa Rosa plum), we wait until they are dark purple and when we lightly press the plum fruit we can feel some softness in the fruit-flesh underneath the skin, they are no longer hard to the touch.
sometimes, we harvest some of the plums while they are not fully ripe but still dark purple color, they ripen after harvest as well. Basing on our experience, our Santa Rosa plums ripen a lot quicker at room temperature, and a lot slower ripening phase when refrigerated.
Matthew Miller Jr. you may get larger fruit if you remove some of the fruit when it’s the size of a small grape... then the tree would have more energy to put into developing larger, sweeter plums with the ones that are left. Most professional growers thin the fruit to increase quality. Try it next year :)
How are the trees now that it is 2 years later?
its May and currently bearing plentiful fruits, currently still green color and expected to turn deep purple fruits as summer approaches.
the trees don't look like they were trained properly from the beginning. You should decide if your going to train them to a central leader or open, the earlier the better. They look healthy!
looks like the non prune tree came out the best. mat be I will start a pruning every OTHER year and see what happens.
I just planted a Santa Rosa, but oh my gosh they grow soo big! Well I don't think mine will get that big, my soil is not as good as yours apparently! Mine only grew about 6 inches las year :(
hopefully it will find you hope with your plum tree by letting you know our soil is not very good too, we have clay type of soil, doesn't drain very well, we did put store-bought potting soil around it, just to enhance the soil a little bit
I’m convinced that Santa Rosa plums are the highly favorable sugar plums based on appearance and taste. Is this true?
It's definitely top 3 or 4. Green gage is supposed to be even better.
M living in Asia & never ever try this fruit even once.. I wonder what it tastes like? Better than apple or cherry?
personally, I think each fruit have its own unique taste, so I cannot say that plums are better than apple or cherry, or wise versa. It's like trying to compare apple and oranges, you cannot really compare, they are too different type of fruits. Apples and cherries are yummy, so are plums, in my opinion.
I have almost 200 redbeauty Plum trees in my garden here in Pakistan, but they are not producing fruits is I expect from them, the trees are 10 years old, is there specific way or spray for producing good fruit, because when there is buds open and become small fruit suddenly the trees are fall down whole of small fruit, please guide
We usually just water them regularly once the flower blossoms and/or small fruits started to develop. Having the presence for bees or honeybees to pollinate the flowers or blossoms helps with our plum tree producing plums or fruits.
Thank you for the information...
...I would've liked to have known what time of the year is okay or not to prune a plum tree.
usually we prune around late winter, before the spring growth. sometimes we do very light pruning during summer when the tree gets so big.
I want to eat
birds would have wiped mine out before they got that ripe
aside from birds, squirrel love them too :-( and we have squirrels hanging around just waiting to harvest our fruits, but we have so much of them every year, we just let them have some of the plums
For the plum fruit, squirrel usually eat the once that falls in the ground. Although, occasionally they roam around the plum trees, but we tried to make sure that birds and squirrels stay away from our peach trees and Rainier cherry trees.