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tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 15 2:17 pm    Post subject: The best plum... Reply with quote
    

That I have here (40+ varieties) is without doubt Reine Claude Violette; the least splitting and brown rot of any of our gages, stands quite well on the tree, and just absolutely fabulous flavour. Mid-Late season

yummersetter



Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset
PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 15 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I always find it interestingly odd how different the same variety of fruit tastes in various parts of the country.

We have a (Valentine's gift (aaah!)) tree that's double grafted with greengage and Reine Claude Violette. I made a frame and twisted them in a spiral over about 5 years so it has a barleysugar trunk. Anyway, the greengages were fab this year, I ate hundreds of them, but the RCVs are really bland and only get eaten by the chickens. And just then in the hope of pink wriggly worms inside them.

However, all my usually tasty late plums are a bit insipid this year so maybe its That Kind of Year.

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 15 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

To be honest it's the first year I've noticed them as outstanding, so maybe something in the weather at ripening time made them that good this year?

Slim



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6533
Location: New England (In the US of A)
PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 15 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
To be honest it's the first year I've noticed them as outstanding, so maybe something in the weather at ripening time made them that good this year?


Did you manage dry and sunny?

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 15 5:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Dryish and sunnyish, we had a few bursts of rainy weather that split a lot of other gages.

Slim



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6533
Location: New England (In the US of A)
PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 15 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Don't know about plums/gages in specific but fruit in general always seem to do well with a nice dryish sunny spell that starts as they begin ripening. Maximum photosynthesis to reach full potentials!

Mistress Rose



Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 15 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It has been a very poor plum year here. Think it was a bit cool or wet during pollination time.

Lorrainelovesplants



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne
PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 15 5:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Ive tried plums over 10 years and its just a thing that doesnt do well for me. Locally, a friend has buckets of the things, but every tree Ive had has turned its toes up and died, no matter where they are planted.

gz



Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8577
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 15 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The best plum....for eating, for cooking, for preserving....?

Difficult to choose even one variety for each purpose,as climate/geography/geology can change the taste of a single variety grown in different places, even the same tree in different years

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45389
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 15 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

For jam ours is Mallard, for cooking whatever's splitting

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