10 Green Pluots growing on my tree

[fishpond]

10 Green Pluots growing on my tree
9 Green Pluots growing on my tree
8 Green Pluots growing on my tree
7 Green Pluots growing on my tree
6 Green Pluots growing on my tree
5 Green Pluots growing on my tree
4 Green Pluots growing on my tree
3 Green Pluots growing on my tree
2 Green Pluots growing on my tree for 3 weeks
Then there was 1 Green Pluot growing on my tree this morning.
Bloody Squirrels

[Jay-ell]

Bad luck there.

There's me thinking that a Pluot was a city runaround made by Renault.

[yummersetter]

That's going to be hard to forget

[Nicos]

Ready stuffed squirrel for Sunday lunch per chance?

[fishpond]

10 Green Pluots growing on my tree
9 Green Pluots growing on my tree
8 Green Pluots growing on my tree
7 Green Pluots growing on my tree
6 Green Pluots growing on my tree
5 Green Pluots growing on my tree
4 Green Pluots growing on my tree
3 Green Pluots growing on my tree
2 Green Pluots growing on my tree for 3 weeks
Then there was 1 Green Pluot growing on my tree this morning.
Bloody Squirrels

As of this morning, Squirrels 10, me nil.
Ah well, there is always next year.

[Nicos]

I wonder if you had sprayed them with chilli they may have left them alone????

Might be worth buying a few bruised apricots and spraying them, then leaving them in the tree???

Don't know if it would work but might be worth a try if you aren't prepared to trap and humainly destroy the squirrel? ( I'm presuming it's one of our American visitors???)

[Nicos]

Well- that was a good guess...it should work a treat!!!

The RSPB: News: Spice up your bird food to deter pesky squirrels

no idea if it would taint the skin but it might work if peeling them afterwards got rid of the chilli flavour?
If it does taint them, then you'd need to eat them after a curry, then you wouldn't notice!!!

Enough of my ramblings

[fishpond]

Many Thanks Nicos, brilliant.
I wonder if it would work for Gages?
Only one way to find out.

[BUFFS]

we spray some cooking oil onto peanuts meant for the birds then dust them with paprika, the birds don't mind as they don't have tongues like us or squirrels but the treerats soon caught on and don't go near them now, I will have to do that with a few picked cherries and strawbs left by the plants to stop us losing all of them to a "very naughty boy" as my wife calls him....

[fishpond]

Seems that somehow the Pluot has deceased--no sign of life, but every other fruit tree is showing new buds at the very least.
I will give it another month or two, before I remove it.
Just wonder what killed it, it did have a very bad aphid attack early last spring & I do not think it got over that.
You never stop learning.

[veggiechicken]

Did you ever manage to taste a pluot?
The name puts me off buying one! How do you pronounce "pluot". Are they the same as Apriums which sound a lot nicer.

[Jay-ell]

Surely an Aprium is a Victorian folly, the ones with the dome roof and columns at the front but no front wall looking like little Greek temples.

I'd break my teeth if I tried to eat one of those.

[veggiechicken]

Could your teeth cope with a Peacotum?
That sounds even less attractive than a pluot

[Muddy_Boots]

Pluot, Aprium, Peacotum have you lot been at the wine.

Don't know what you are all on about as I've never heard any of those names so I'm now going to bed then looking at the confused.com website in the morning see if they can explain what you are talking about.

Animal, vegetable or mineral?

[fishpond]

Did you ever manage to taste a pluot?
The name puts me off buying one! How do you pronounce "pluot". Are they the same as Apriums which sound a lot nicer.

Nope, Squirrel did, but didn't leave any.

Pluot--pronounced as spelt--75% Plum/25% Apricot.
Aprium--75% Apricot/25% Plum.

Peacotum---50 / 50 cross between a Peacock and tumtum--stomach with pretty tail feathers-or maybe not.
Or:-A peacotum is a peach/apricot/plum hybrid, said to taste similar to fruit punch, trademarked by Zaiger's Genetics, a company that develops novel fruit through deliberate hybridization.