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Every year all the flowers on my plum are pollinated, and to start there are hundreds of friut, then over time most of them turn yellow and drop off(while still very small) and so we get about a dozen plums in the end. Do we need to feed it ? or is it another problem- any ideas?
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Fruit drop is quite normal although it seems yours is excessive. Do you thin the fruits? The tree can only support so many and thinning them may help inn this regard. -
I dont get to the point of thinning they drop before that,i wondered if its a lack of water and dont have the problm with any of the other trees
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I was too thinking of lack of water or overcrowded but they should be acclimatised to where you are. See if the link helps. Good luck
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Poor pollination can result in fruit drop before it is ripe.
Just because a fruit hangs on the tree, doesn't mean that it was pollinated properly. I've often cut open fruits that grew to half size, to find deformed pips or no pips. Some trees intentionally hold onto non-pollinated fruits for half of the growing season - and these fruits that release maggot-attracting chemicals, to try to draw maggots away from the pollinated fruits that contain live pips. "Parthenocarpic" is often used to describe these "decoy" pip-less fruits.
Plums are very sensitive to water shortage and many fruit trees will drop their high-water-demanding fruit to save themselves in a drought.
It is also possible that the live part of the fruit (the pip) is being eaten by maggots/larva of some kind. Damage to the pip will often cause dropping of the fruit. Look for small holes in the dropped fruit as a sign of maggot damage..Comment
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Seems to be a lack of water thing, there's 30 ft cherry next door right on the boundry though we've had the same amount of rain (never ending) as last year and there was no drop last year.
The link page opening sentence says plum is native to the USA- I thought it stemmed from Mesopotamia and Caspain sea area- middle east??Comment
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