Fruit Trees & Citrus

Plum

Most plums crop better with a second compatible variety nearby.

Prunus domestica · Fruit Trees & Citrus · Perennial

When to plant Plum in Australia

Sourced timing by broad climate zone. Zones with no sourced timing for an action are left out rather than estimated.

Plant out seedlings: Cool, Temperate — Jun, Jul, Aug

Australian planting guide by climate zone

Sourced guidance by broad climate zone, shown as fixed months, timing relative to sowing or planting, or written growing advice. Your GrowCal calendar applies your regional growing profile, so its dates may sit earlier or later than the months below.

Plum planting timing by Australian climate zone
Action	Cool	Temperate	Subtropical	Tropical	Arid
Plant out	Jun, Jul, Aug Details Winter is the best time to plant bare-rooted fruit trees; the bare-root season lasts from June to August.	Jun, Jul, Aug Details Winter is the best time to plant bare-rooted fruit trees; the bare-root season lasts from June to August.	Low-chill varieties and spacing Details For warmer areas such as coastal Queensland and northern New South Wales, allow 4m between rows and 3m between trees; for cooler areas such as Kingaroy, 4m between rows and 2.5m between trees.	Climate guidance Details Plums crop in warm climates only from the low-chill selections bred for Queensland conditions. In the tropics they remain a marginal, variety-dependent choice.	Climate guidance Details Plums sit inside the stone fruit group grown in arid inland Australia under irrigation, with frost protection needed at flowering.
Feed	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	May, Jun Details Trees need enough nitrogen to keep them going until natural dormancy around May-June.	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown
Prune	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	Winter and summer pruning Details A productive low-chill tree can only be achieved with a combination of winter and summer pruning. Thin fruit at flowering, before the fruit has formed.	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown
Pest check	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	Fruit fly control Details Set up traps early in the season, well before fruit start to colour. Use bait sprays and cover sprays up until four weeks before harvest, then weekly cover sprays until harvest. Leaves yellow and fall naturally as trees go dormant. Leaves dropping early, before the end of April, means there is another problem.	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown
Harvest	Fruits in summer Details The ABC Gardening Australia Fruit Guide states that plum fruits in summer. The guide gives a season, not months, and picking time varies with variety and season, so GrowCal does not publish harvest months from it.	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown

Only sourced growing and timing guidance is shown.

Zone notes

Tropical: Plums crop in warm climates only from the low-chill selections bred for Queensland conditions. In the tropics they remain a marginal, variety-dependent choice.
Arid: Plums sit inside the stone fruit group grown in arid inland Australia under irrigation, with frost protection needed at flowering.

About this data

This schedule is part of GrowCal's preview horticultural dataset — useful as general guidance, and still being validated. Conditions vary with your soil, aspect, frost and variety. Read more on the data & methodology page, or send us a correction.

Other plants in the GrowCal dataset, mostly from the same category.

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