Help Please! Very Sick Plum Tree

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Author Message   Novicemed  My Weather My Time Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 04:16 pm EST :    Hello everyone, I am a novice gardener and 'forumer' so forgive me if I make any faux pas. I have a plum tree I inherited when I bought my house 2 yrs ago - I think its about 30 years old (the same as the house)but it was never looked after. It gave a lot of fruit the 1st yr despite not looking v.well. But last Dec we levelled the garden and in order to keep the tree we left a terrace, a few of the roots did get cut short thou. This summer it fruited but not so many and they were all only the size of olives. They still tasted fantastic. After it dropped all its leaves (like it did last yr) but this time earlier and quicker and now yellow sticky stuff (looks like amber) is oozing out of the bark. Bark is beginning to fall off and there are what looks like worm shapes (no worms though) imprinted in the wood. What is it? How can I save my tree or is it too late? TX everyone.Ps Tried to post some photos but can't seem to do it . Will try again tomorrow if it will help. Novicemed - HaSharon, Zone "?"   Karalyn  My Weather Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 07:13 pm EST :    Hi Novice My cherry trees and apricot tree is doing the same thing. I had a great bounty of cherries last year and have had great apricots as well. I think the weather in boise this last spring came too early and then had a freeze of some type. I can't recall, but I'm thinking that is what has happen. I also notice that I have sap coming out too can see that I need to cut back some branches. I can only guess that your plum tree needs to be pruned since you have taken away some of its roots and it can't sustain the tree structure or branching. Also, I got an answer for my fruit trees for fertilizing them. Use leaves from your yard or compost them first. Then use a 101010 NPK in spring. I think at one time a friend told me to use a product called Linum or something like that. I was a bit green myself back then and never used it and the apricot tree does look a bit hollow inside the trunk. It has been lacking attention as well. I'm going to be trimming it up as my yard helper really had never pruned fruiit trees before. He didn't tree the top of the branches so that it looks like an umbrella. Anyway, I hope someone with more experience will answer you. Karalyn Idaho Zone 6   Novicemed  My Weather My Time Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 08:09 am EST :    Thanks Karalyn, I have since been told its suffering from sometime of woodworm and we should be able to treat it with pruning and a pesticide. Now I want to find an organic one! Novicemed - HaSharon, Zone "?"

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