Main Tree: Santa Rosa from La Verne Nursery (Lowes), Oct 2016
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DIED SUMMER 2018: Summer 2018 was especially brutal. Even with heavy shade it could not stay alive. This was another heartbreak because it had a lot of LECooke varieties that are now harder to come by (because LECooke is no more). I have not had any luck with plums from La Verne. I get them to live 1-2 years and then the die. I suspect they are using Citation as their rootsock (maybe Neemaguard). And I have had little luck with either in my yard.
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Graft 1: Elephant Heart, scion wood from Dave Wilson Nursery, Feb 2017
Graft 2: Laroda, scion wood from Dave Wilson Nursery, Feb 2017
Graft 3: Methley, scion wood from Dave Wilson Nursery, Feb 2017
Graft 4: Golden Nectar, scion wood from Dave Wilson Nursery, Feb 2017
Graft 5: Kelsey, scion wood from LE Cooke Nursery, Feb 2017
Graft 6: Burgundy, scion wood from Dave Wilson Nursery, Feb 2017
Graft 7: Inca, scion wood from LE Cooke Nursery, Feb 2017
Graft 8: Hollywood, scion wood from AZRFG Scion Exchange, Feb 2017
Graft 9: Beauty, scion wood from LE Cooke Nursery, Feb 2017
Graft 10: Green Gage, scion wood from La Verne Nursery, Feb 2017
Graft 11: Mariposa, scion wood from Dave Wilson Nursery, Feb 2017
Graft 12: Satsuma, scion wood from Dave Wilson Nursery, Feb 2017
First, allow me to pay my respects to Frankenplum #0 - A Santa Rosa plum with 12 different grafts on it. Bought the tree in 2014, multi-grafted it in 2015, died in the summer of 2016 .... RIP
2016 was a particularly brutal summer (June high was 123 F in my yard). So what I did was to plant a Pakistan Mulberry to the west, a Moringa to the southwest, and a Castor to the south, and decided to give it another shot.
Got a new tree in the fall of 2016, did a bunch of grafts in the spring of 2017. We will see how it fares in the next couple of years.
