I recently planted Long John and Seneca plums assuming they would pollinate each other. Further research has brought this into question and I'm looking for advice. I live near Portland Oregon and am looking for a variety that would pollinate both of these. Otherwise what is the best choice for each. Thanks.
Raintree Nursery has a bloom time/pollenizer chart on their website. It says Seneca and Italian are compatible. http://www.raintreenursery.com.....Plums.html
One website I found says Polly and Victory are good pollenizers for Longjohn.
Seneca and Longjohn are both from Cornell University and both have Italian in their parentage. I would probably pick somehing other than Italian that blooms same time as Seneca. You can see the list of Cornell fruit releases at this link: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/b.....sAllowed=y
...it’s likely too late to procure viable scion wood, but if you could come up with a couple sticks of a likely pollinator for ‘next winter/ spring,’ you could graft a pollinizer limb onto either (or both) existing trees… Videos for ‘top work grafting’ are all over.
I had the hardest time matching pollination on my plum/ prune trees, so ended up grafting on such limbs. It worked! And, you get a limb or two of another variety ..without having planted an entirely new tree. Just do some serious homework on a pollinating variety, or two, then equal homework on the topworking process. Just a thought ~
Viron said
...it’s likely too late to procure viable scion wood, but if you could come up with a couple sticks of a likely pollinator for ‘next winter/ spring,’ you could graft a pollinizer limb onto either (or both) existing trees… Videos for ‘top work grafting’ are all over. basket randomI had the hardest time matching pollination on my plum/ prune trees, so ended up grafting on such limbs. It worked! And, you get a limb or two of another variety ..without having planted an entirely new tree. Just do some serious homework on a pollinating variety, or two, then equal homework on the topworking process. Just a thought ~
But I'm worried that grafting will produce mutant plants.
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