King Biscuit Time
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Hello Urbanites!
I have an allotment, upon which I have inherited two plum trees. One I think is Victoria (greenish/yellow skinned ovoid fruit that blushes a bit red upon ripening), and the other gives smaller rounder purple-skinned fruit with orangey-yellow flesh.
The purple fruit is great. I had a good crop last summer, and this summer I think the late frost got at the blossom, and I got a tiny crop - but still delicious.
The Victoria I think is infected with with plum moth. During ripening, each plum gets a little crystal forming on it (presumably where juicy has dripped out the maggot hole) and ultimately a little maggot inside. Last year I tried to gather all the fruit and binned it. But it still came back this year.
I'm pretty certain this is a lost cause, and I think I'm going to take the tree down next year.
So - what variety should I plant in it's place? If I knew what the other one was, I would happily take another, particularly as the moths seem to totally leave it alone.
- should I wait and give it a year for the moth larvae to die off before I re-plant?
I have an allotment, upon which I have inherited two plum trees. One I think is Victoria (greenish/yellow skinned ovoid fruit that blushes a bit red upon ripening), and the other gives smaller rounder purple-skinned fruit with orangey-yellow flesh.
The purple fruit is great. I had a good crop last summer, and this summer I think the late frost got at the blossom, and I got a tiny crop - but still delicious.
The Victoria I think is infected with with plum moth. During ripening, each plum gets a little crystal forming on it (presumably where juicy has dripped out the maggot hole) and ultimately a little maggot inside. Last year I tried to gather all the fruit and binned it. But it still came back this year.
I'm pretty certain this is a lost cause, and I think I'm going to take the tree down next year.
So - what variety should I plant in it's place? If I knew what the other one was, I would happily take another, particularly as the moths seem to totally leave it alone.
- should I wait and give it a year for the moth larvae to die off before I re-plant?