Is it too late to prune my victoria plum tree?

[womanofdulwich]

I have just picked my plums- am I too late to prune? - much talk of silver leaf disease- so I guess I wait till next spring- if Iremember. Any experts out there?

[El Pibe]

Fffffnnnggggghhh

[maxxi]

stop it.

[Laddy Muck]

Hello WOD.

I am not an expert though I have been looking after a Victoria plum tree for about 15 years. I prune immediately following harvesting. The experts say you should also "arbrex" where pruned; I did this for the first 3 or four years but stopped doing so once I ran out of the stuff (couldn't be bothered). No problems so far (apart from plum tree moth and fecking squirrels).

[womanofdulwich]

Thank you- you sound very grown up laddy!! i will now google arbex..........

[Annette Curtain]

Prune and replace or add a grease band, it's the most common missed out disease preventer.

But if think you've got true Silver Leaf then there's some further reading here http://www.which.co.uk/documents/pdf/silver-leaf-disease-153706.pdf

[KidKruger]

I had to dig-up 8-10 Damsen and other plum trees because silver leaf got them, apparently once it's there you can't plant plums again due to latent remainder of disease in the soil.

I hope you can prevent it.

[malumbu]

BBC Gardening included a piece about summer pruning. I'll try to pdf it if I get my act together.

[hnmt]

More info:

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[womanofdulwich]

hnmt what exactly are you directing me too?