Posted by Notjustair on July 25, 2014 at 21:00:42 from (174.237.163.11):
I grew up in western central Kansas. The sand hill plumb bushes were thick. The best plumbs were the size of bing cherries and made excellent jam. They were also good in moos - a kind of cold German fruit soup. Today mom brought me a five gallon bucket of plumbs.
My farm is in NE Kansas and the bushes don't exist here except on a very small scale. Due to family battles, I don't have access to the bushes to dig some runners. I am bound and determined to get bushes going from this seed and have some thickets in the pasture.
How would I go about getting them to germinate? I've been keeping every seed from the ones I have eaten and am keeping track of the largest plumbs and will double my efforts to get those grow. Should I freeze them (like going through a winter)? Some seeds need to ride around in an animals gut and be deposited (I'm not volunteering for that). Think bing cherries - what would you do to get those to germinate? Since these are wild I know the resulting plant won't be barren as sometimes happens with hybrids. We have a three season porch on the south side of the house that will be perfect for getting bushes ready to transplant next spring.
It's funny - they were a nuisance back then and I am going out of my way to start some.
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