Pruning a young plum tree requires training it into this shape by selecting three to five main scaffold limbs, equally spaced around the tree, and removing others that could get in the way.

PRUNING plum trees is essential to maintain a fruitful crop each year and timing it right is the key to keeping a steady harvest - but as the harvest season comes to an end, when should you be ...

Plum trees are susceptible to diseases that have the potential to be more problematic when pruning is done in wet weather.

Klamath plum is a large shrub or small tree growing to a height of 25 feet with a trunk diameter of six inches.

Sunlight, even in winter, will ensure a bountiful harvest of fruit in summertime, however, there is also one key task to perform now for a heavy crop of plums. RHS experts have detailed the importance ...

A. Hello again, Karole. The best time to prune a plum tree is in late winter just before bud break, and the advice you were given notwithstanding, plum trees fruit best with rather severe pruning.

After Pellier’s initial venture failed, he brought a plum tree rootstock from his home of Agen in the southwest of France, near Bordeaux. Cuttings from this Petite d’Agen variety were grafted onto a ...

Black knot, a fungal disease, is affecting cherry and plum trees in the Greater Columbus area, likely due to recent wet weather. The disease causes hard, black knots on branches, disrupting growth ...