Which season is plum season?

Plum season is summer, and plums are most abundant in May-July, July and August.

It is best to sow plums in autumn. If you must sow in spring, you should layer the seeds with sand in autumn and take them out in early spring. When the fruit changes color in June and July, it is harvested, spread indoors, fully ripened, washed and dried for later use.

Mei Shi seedlings are used to cultivate rootstocks or new varieties because of their slow growth rate, late flowering period and great variety variation.

Plum blossom grafting:

Propagation grafting is a common method to propagate plum blossoms in China. Grafted seedlings grow fast and bloom early, and can maintain the excellent characteristics of the original varieties. Grafting rootstocks can be seedlings of peaches, apricots, apricots and plums.

Among them, the seeds of peaches and apricots are the easiest to get, the grafting is easy to survive, the grafting grows fast and has many flowers, which are widely used in production. However, diseases and insect pests are easy to occur after grafting, which shortens the life span, so it is not as good as apricot, Prunus armeniaca and Prunus mume as rootstocks. Therefore, it is suggested to cultivate seedlings of 1-2 years with these three kinds of seeds, and then graft them as rootstocks.

Grafting methods vary according to different regions and cultivation purposes. For example, in Beijing, when the weather is dry and windy, block budding is often carried out in summer and during the Millennium. In the south of the Yangtze River, such as Shanghai, abdominal grafting and cutting are often carried out before germination in early spring from March to April, or before and after the autumnal equinox. In Suzhou, Yangzhou and other places, from February to April or from June to August, the old roots of plum are often used as rootstocks, and young plum trees are used as plum piles.