buckhunter10
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Anyone plant these?
Looks like a summer drop, any food into fall left?
Plant in tubes?
Looks like a summer drop, any food into fall left?
Plant in tubes?
Chickasaw plum
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Merle Hawggard
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We've got several nice Chickasaw plum thickets that were growing wild when we bought the place. Here, they drop around the middle of june.
Since they were wild obviously we didn't need tubes, but you may depending on your deer density. They suckered profusely so once they get a start they should do fine.
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Since they were wild obviously we didn't need tubes, but you may depending on your deer density. They suckered profusely so once they get a start they should do fine.
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buckhunter10
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If you didn't have them would you have planted them?
buckhunter10
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So if you hinge cut an area and pop some of these in to help make a thicket it could add bedding and food in summer. Seems like an attractive plan.
Neahawg
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Yes deer bed down in them and eat the fruit and if you can get your own make exceptional jelly
Merle Hawggard
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Neahawg is correct! They make great bedding, feed lots of wildlife, and while you can eat them as well, their true human purpose is jelly lol!
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I have planted around 3000 sandhill plum is what we call them.Every animal I have on the farm uses these and they grow good in my sandy soil. I remember as a kid riding in the back of the pickup and stopping and picking plums for jelly.Most of them got sprayed out years ago.I like planting them in NWSG it's one of the islands of cover I always talk about.If fact just 3 days ago I was mowing some NWSG and when I drow by one of these plum patches i saw something move and it was a doe throwing her head around to look at me,there were 2 of them that took off.
THE LLC
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I planted several in clumps of five each about ten years ago. They have grown VERY slow, produced fruit only once (last year), and have never made any suckers. Very disappointed in them. They grow wild on places all around me and become almost a weed there--but not on my place. They are fine eating when ripe though, or at least the wild ones are.
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I planted some American and Chickasaw a few years back........they have lived and grown well. One thing I will say is that I don't believe they will suckers and spread for me (us) like they do in sandy soil. Just not sure they will do that in our clays. I will say that deer LOVE them and go out of their way to eat what they can reach, even on their hind legs to nip the tops of them out of ttee tubes!
I don't know if they sucker are they are from dropped seeds.I put a trail cam on a stake about a foot off the ground in a little opening in a plum patch and I think the only animals I didn't get pictures of eating plums was a bobcat and a skunk.Dang double pics I got it to stop doing it for awhile now seems to be starting up again
Bottomland
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This photo is from May 15, 2016 of a LOADED 3 yr old Chickasaw plum on my farm in SW Mississippi. I have a planted several clumps of these together to fork thickets. They really like this spot. I planted these in 2014, seedlings from Mossy Oak Nativ Nurseries.
