I have a plum tree Bush that came up from ruts and the plums are outstanding. The original tree was taken out by lightning and then 5 feet later, the tree came up from a root, and it's been growing for about 5 years. So it's getting bigger and I wanna bring part of it with me. So that I can have those plumbs again, does anybody know how to do this?Besides digging it up?

I bought some coconut fiber, and I was gonna try grafting, but I don't know what i'm doing

My plums really sucker with new shoots coming up each year. I actually just finished digging up and transplanting some of the new shoots. I usually transplant them in the garden for a year or two and then transplant to the final destination when they are 3 feet tall. I have also got SOME to grow from planting the pits. I dug a trench and buried several gallons of pits and got 5 trees to come up from them.

Scott, if you dig up sections of root from it, pot them up, with the side closest to the tree up and it will produce more clones of that tree.

Keith

If, you have roots coming up from a failed graft plum tree, then one would assume that the seedling rootstock plum was a decent plum producing tree. That can happen. Dig up any section of root and it will produce like fruit. Genetically the same. Most often, the fruit from the roots will be inferior to the original graft. It was just the under stock.

We do this for a living. I gather the original tree was from a pit that germinated? If so then the most sure fire way would be to wait until dormant season is here again and then take cuttings and graft onto root stock at your new location. If you are merely eating plums that came from the tree that grew from a root stock that was under the original variety then you can dig up a sucker from that rootstock (your existing tree).