When to prune plum trees?
- Botanical name
- Prunus domestica
- Family
- Rosaceae
Plum trees are pruned from April to August. They are planted from October to March. They are harvested from July to September.
Plum trees are woody perennials. The edible part is the fruit.
Plum trees through the year
- pruning
- planting
- harvest
In short
Growing conditions
Pests and diseases
Listed here is every problem for which the sources name this plant as a host. The problems are not listed in order of how common they are.
Brown rot (monilia)
disease- Signs
- A brown rot spreading across the fruit, with light brown cushions of spores on it, often in concentric rings. The fruit drops or stays on the branch as a dried mummy.
- Prevention
- The fungus overwinters in mummified fruit and in cankered wounds in the bark, so collect and remove every rotten and mummified fruit and cut out affected twigs. The infection enters through a wound, so a net against birds takes away the main door. In a cluster it passes from one fruit to the fruit it touches.
- What to do
- For the home garden there are no fungicides against brown rot. What is left is picking off and removing the mummies as they appear and choosing less susceptible varieties.
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Related plants
The plants below are in the same botanical family (Rosaceae).
Sources about the plant: ASPCA Toxic and Non-Toxic Plants, Clemson Cooperative Extension, GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, Iowa State University Extension, NC State Extension Plant Toolbox, Royal Horticultural Society, University of Maryland Extension, Virginia Cooperative Extension, Wikidata. Checked between 14 and 25 August 2026. The problem descriptions also draw on: EPPO Global Database.