new to the flock Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 I have had a rather hellish week....will not boar you all and go into that.....but came up with a bit of Lady Luck today. I seem to have found the perverbial rocking horse poop Today I located 2 Prunus nigra Ait. Canada Plum a very close relative to Prunus spinosa L. or Sloes. This particular tree is on the endangered list for Ontario and is basically thought to be extinct in this area. Now I have been a Forestry Technician for 24 years and done a lot of timber cruising in S. Ontario and never come across one of these. I brought a small twig with leaves and around a dozen fruit home for identifing purposes and to confirm. I will be heading back on Saturday to harvest some additional fruit...some for propagation this spring and a few for a wee bit of I guess I will call it Canada Plum Gin.........dont worry I have full intentions of keeping the pits for seed stock. The funniest part of this is the trees are located in a 150 year old garden that has been neglected and is all overgrown with wild grape.....another that is being harvested this Saturday as it makes the best Grape Jelly......I have walked past these two trees atleast 100 times, the only reason I noticed them there was 1/2 a dozen plums on the ground which had rolled out from under the grape vines I was checking :blink: Although the fruit on these trees is orangy red the flesh has the same bitter sweet flavour of sloes so I am hoping to produce some very nice gin. NTTF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffolk shooter Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 Sounds like a great result NTTF, so I guess this time next year your posts will be incoherent after tasting. :unsure: SS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new to the flock Posted September 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 Sounds like a great result NTTF, so I guess this time next year your posts will be incoherent after tasting. SS Sorry SS just saw your reply was busy checking to see if the gin was any good before I put the plums in Have to make another trip to the off licence today NTTF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavman Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 NTTF Get Trix to check your Plums over before you try to force them into a bottle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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