when do plums flower?

[bluemoon]

Mine flowered last week.
We've had three harsh frosts this week.

[divvy]

Mine was new last year too and I havent got any flowers this year . Tree looks healthy though . The apples are covered in blossom and the cherry only had 2 . Early days yet though , so as you all say , next year may be better .

[TonyF]

All the blossom has come and gone down here.

Last year we had a very late series of frosts which absolutely clobbered the fruit blossoms and budlets anbd throughout the area the fruit crop was really poor.

This year, so far, it's been sunny and warm, even when it's been raining it's been warm. And it's about this time of the year that we have our last frosts, hence the plant fairs being held this time of year.

Was out setting the feremone traps and glue bands yesterday in the plum/vine peach trees and there are loads of tiny plumlettes on the trees so this year, perhaps, we'll have a crop.

[Lavenderblue]

our plum tree is in our little courtyard garden. It always flowers really early because it is so sheltered. Luckily that means that we have less danger of frost - even summer bedding over winters in our little garden. Anyway we were the only tree for miles to have a decent crop last year, the blossom was really beautiful this year so we are hoping for another delicious crop.

[SMS6]

Victoria has a tendency to produce too much flowers/fruit and nearly kill itself in the process. It then produces no fruit the next year while it recovers. But then it overproduces again the following season and gets stuck in an "all or nothing" fruiting situation, which is not ideal.
I have a couple of apples that have unexpectedly slipped into biennial without any apparent reason. I'll have to shock them out of it.
I grow my Victoria on it's own, without a pollinator (it's partially self-fertile), so pollination is not too heavy. I then cut off any damaged plums that haven't fallen in the June drop and any others that I notice have been pest-damaged during the summer. Mine gives me no trouble with biennial bearing as a result and I keep the pests under control.

Maybe it's still settling in then because we certainly can't blame too much fruit and/or flowers. Don't think we've had more than a couple of plums off it in 3 years.

[FB.]

Rich soil, plenty of water, no competition from other plants and no pruning can delay cropping of all fruit trees.
Treat them rough, or shock them and they soon come into line.
I have several hazel bushes. Last year, they all made 2-3ft of growth by mid-summer. I cut all the new growth back to two or three new buds (i.e they suddenly lost three-quarters of all their new growth) and they immediately responded by producing large amounts of catkins and flower buds for the following late winter.
Sometimes, you have to be cruel to be kind.