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My plums are smaller this year

(40 Posts)
Mollygo Tue 03-Aug-21 09:50:49

The plum tree is laden with ripe fruit, but this year a lot of the plums are smaller than usual.
Anyone else experienced this?

Namsnanny Tue 03-Aug-21 10:22:36

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Please excuse me the title of your thread tickled me this morning!!

Callistemon Tue 03-Aug-21 10:23:27

Yes, they're very tiny and we have fewer than last year. BIL lost his crop due to that cold snap.

Namsnanny Tue 03-Aug-21 10:24:34

I only have apple trees, but my husband said he feels the same way. (Ignore me)

MawBe Tue 03-Aug-21 10:32:42

Namsnanny

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Please excuse me the title of your thread tickled me this morning!!

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Doodle Tue 03-Aug-21 10:34:21

MawBe

Namsnanny

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Please excuse me the title of your thread tickled me this morning!!

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Me too ?????

Callistemon Tue 03-Aug-21 10:35:16

What a good thing I changed plums to crop in my post ???

midgey Tue 03-Aug-21 10:36:25

Hardly dare reply now! ?
I only have small plums on one branch, everything else was caught by the cold snap.

Flexagon Tue 03-Aug-21 10:37:56

I'm sure this was a code phrase on "Allo, Allo." smile

J52 Tue 03-Aug-21 10:51:44

We had a bumper crop last year, absolutely none this year!
Too dry and cold in the spring?

Jaxjacky Tue 03-Aug-21 11:01:24

Too many cold baths ?

Millie22 Tue 03-Aug-21 11:34:40

Now I do like small plums actually and several other fruits ?

Kali2 Tue 03-Aug-21 11:35:13

Namsnanny

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Please excuse me the title of your thread tickled me this morning!!

same here - well it is so cold today!

Katie59 Tue 03-Aug-21 11:36:16

Despite a late frost my plum tree is laden but they are smaller, maybe they will ripen larger. Apples are also smaller

Callistemon Tue 03-Aug-21 11:40:42

I'm probably telling Grannies to suck eggs here but, because our plums keeping dropping off (no comments please ?) we have to watch out for the dog eating them if they dry out on the ground. They're not good for dogs as the stones contain cyanide and other toxins.

Kali2 Tue 03-Aug-21 11:43:23

I saw a video once of badgers completely drunk after eating fermented plums- they love them.

I have a lovely painting here entitled 'The Plum Badgers' which I love.

Kalu Tue 03-Aug-21 11:48:37

Excuse me laughing OP but I must have a one track mind too!
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We no longer have fruit trees or dogs sadly. When we did have, fortunately the dogs ignored any fallen fruit, surprising for greedy labradors.

Nortsat Tue 03-Aug-21 11:49:46

We had absolutely none last year.
There’s a good crop this year but they haven’t ripened. They are usually ripe by the end of July. ?

gangy5 Tue 03-Aug-21 11:55:44

Our apples are tiny. Only a very few of the wild blackberries have developed this year.

MawBe Tue 03-Aug-21 11:59:24

I hope nobody is growing melons ?

May7 Tue 03-Aug-21 13:48:46

Bumper crop last year and absolutely none this year.. very strange

downtoearth Tue 03-Aug-21 13:56:10

My mind drifted into that area toogringringrin

Mollygo Tue 03-Aug-21 14:19:53

I never thought of plums a different way. ??
There’s no shortage of fruit, just that this pic shows the big ones. Lots of them are like big grapes and they’re already falling off.

Mollygo Tue 03-Aug-21 14:20:28

The plums.

MawBe Tue 03-Aug-21 14:21:07

Mollygo

I never thought of plums a different way. ??
There’s no shortage of fruit, just that this pic shows the big ones. Lots of them are like big grapes and they’re already falling off.

Ah Mollygo - to the pure all things are pure! ?