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Plum tree problem

Green fingered ClaireGreen fingered Claire Posts: 3
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My plumb tree seems to have a disease that i can't seem to diagnose. On all the newly grown stems there are tiny,raised, circular lumps which dip in the middle. Could it be something to do with the aphids that i have just got rid of which were curling the leaves? They seem to appear in twos either side the base of the leaves. I have been on every website i know to try and find out what this is but no luck as yet.

Claire

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  • MuddyForkMuddyFork Posts: 435

    Could you post a picture as it may help?

  • Green fingered ClaireGreen fingered Claire Posts: 3

    This is the best photo i could get with my pixely challenged camera. 

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391

    If you mean those tiny blobs on the leaf stem, my guess would be they are a reaction from the tree where an aphid has pierced the stem and has been sucking the sap.  As you have managed to get rid of the aphids I think the tree will be fine now.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Green fingered ClaireGreen fingered Claire Posts: 3

    Thanks very much, I am a little over protective of this plum tree as it is my hubbys and he would be so gutted if anything really bad happened to it.

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