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| Hi,
Last year I bought a Santa Rosa plum tree at the Home Depot. It came back
nicely this spring with a lot of flowers. Then a couple of weeks back I
read somewhere that you need at least two of these trees to get fruit. I
went and purchased another one and planted it about 35 ft. away from the
first one. Is that close enough to get proper pollination? Also, does
anyone here have experience with this plum here in the Austin area?
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| Jangchub 2007-04-15, 8:25 pm |
| On 15 Apr 2007 05:55:49 GMT, ceed <ceed.spameater@dysthe.net> wrote:
>Hi,
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>Last year I bought a Santa Rosa plum tree at the Home Depot. It came back
>nicely this spring with a lot of flowers. Then a couple of weeks back I
>read somewhere that you need at least two of these trees to get fruit. I
>went and purchased another one and planted it about 35 ft. away from the
>first one. Is that close enough to get proper pollination? Also, does
>anyone here have experience with this plum here in the Austin area?
Santa Rosa Plum is a self-pollinator.
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| Jangchub <sakadawa@kopan.com> wrote in
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> On 15 Apr 2007 05:55:49 GMT, ceed <ceed.spameater@dysthe.net> wrote:
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> Santa Rosa Plum is a self-pollinator.
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Really? Then both the site on the net I read about this and the guy
at the Home Depot was wrong. So yet again I learn to triple check!
Thanks! 
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| Jangchub 2007-04-21, 9:25 am |
| On 20 Apr 2007 11:24:12 GMT, ceed <ceed.spameater@dysthe.net> wrote:
>Jangchub <sakadawa@kopan.com> wrote in
>news:32d523p39om8pd99c36nsdaesvrfu82023@4ax.com:
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>Really? Then both the site on the net I read about this and the guy
>at the Home Depot was wrong. So yet again I learn to triple check!
>Thanks!
This is the very first site I came across when searching on Santa Rosa
Plum:
http://www.greenwoodnursery.com/page.cfm/5780
From this site:
http://www.davewilson.com/br10/br10Plum.html
Santa Rosa sized 50 to 90; purple over yellow coloring; excellent
acidic flavor; harvest the 2nd to 3rd week of June; sets the standard
for flavor in plums; early to mid-season bloom; vigorous, spreading
tree; self-fruitful; 300 hour estimated chilling requirement.
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| Jangchub <sakadawa@kopan.com> wrote in
news:d8dh2312l0bevt0vdubftbsi3rvkrggh3l@4ax.com:
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> This is the very first site I came across when searching on Santa Rosa
> Plum:
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> http://www.greenwoodnursery.com/page.cfm/5780
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> From this site:
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> http://www.davewilson.com/br10/br10Plum.html
> Santa Rosa sized 50 to 90; purple over yellow coloring; excellent
> acidic flavor; harvest the 2nd to 3rd week of June; sets the standard
> for flavor in plums; early to mid-season bloom; vigorous, spreading
> tree; self-fruitful; 300 hour estimated chilling requirement.
>
Thank you! I got both mine from The Home Depot. They had one left last
year, and the other one was a loner this spring. They are really nice
looking trees with a lot of fruit set this spring. I can't wait to see
how they come out (unless hail and/or wind prevents it from happening).
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