Date: 12/08/2009 14:48:11
From: artychoke
ID: 61641
Subject: Green Gage Plum ?

I have bought a Green Gage Plum, and I was wanting to find out what do I get to pollinate it —they say the following are used but very hard to come by
Santa Rosa, Golden Drop,Damison
If I was to buy another Green Gage would that suffice?

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Date: 12/08/2009 16:38:47
From: Dinetta
ID: 61642
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

Hang in there Arty, the forum goes a bit quiet these days, more lively towards the end of the day when most of us check in to catch up on the chat threads…

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Date: 12/08/2009 20:18:45
From: Dinetta
ID: 61670
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

bump????

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Date: 12/08/2009 22:18:02
From: Longy
ID: 61680
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

Dunno much about plums, but i’ll bet you dont need another of the same type, or it’d be a self pollinating type and you wouldn’t need another one.

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Date: 13/08/2009 04:24:08
From: roughbarked
ID: 61684
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

My mum had greengage plums, she also had a satsuma.. neither really are best at pollinating each other but.. she has as many plums as were needed.

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Date: 13/08/2009 07:18:57
From: artychoke
ID: 61694
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

So did your Mum get any off the Green Gage

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Date: 13/08/2009 09:56:39
From: roughbarked
ID: 61717
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

yes, She always had lots of greengage plums, plenty for herself … Partly because I am not a big plum eater.

Note that there are differences between European and Japanese plums.

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Date: 13/08/2009 10:00:03
From: artychoke
ID: 61719
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

Thanks Roughbarked—so what did they get pollinated by

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Date: 13/08/2009 10:03:57
From: roughbarked
ID: 61720
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

artychoke said:


Thanks Roughbarked—so what did they get pollinated by

Self pollinated there were no other plums nearby, cutting out chance of pollination from someone else’s tree.

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Date: 13/08/2009 10:05:20
From: artychoke
ID: 61721
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

Thanks Mate

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Date: 13/08/2009 14:32:09
From: roughbarked
ID: 61754
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

Technically, the Green Gage Plum is not a European Plum. This Plum is
self-fertile meaning it should pollinate itself without needing another
Plum to help produce a crop.

The Satsuma was probably a useful choice as it was also not an Eurpoean variety but it isn’t necessary to provide a special pollinator for Green Gage plums..

Strange that I got a job today doing just that .. grafting a plum pollinator through an orchard. ;)

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Date: 14/08/2009 06:04:56
From: artychoke
ID: 61849
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

I was at the nursery at Gloucester this arvo and they knew all about green gage plums and sold me a $32 Robe de Sargeant plum tree which according to the label is the right tree

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Date: 14/08/2009 07:04:53
From: roughbarked
ID: 61854
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

$32?

and all these years I have been grafting them for a dollar a tree. Someone is making 200% on it after it left the nursery
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Date: 16/08/2009 13:27:28
From: Barbara B
ID: 62056
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

Hi,
Coe’s Golden Drop is a very good pollinator for a green gage plum.
Barbara B

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Date: 16/08/2009 14:54:29
From: pomolo
ID: 62062
Subject: re: Green Gage Plum ?

Barbara B said:


Hi,
Coe’s Golden Drop is a very good pollinator for a green gage plum.
Barbara B

Thank you Barbara B.

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