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    10 Green Pluots growing on my tree
    9 Green Pluots growing on my tree
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    3 Green Pluots growing on my tree
    2 Green Pluots growing on my tree for 3 weeks
    Then there was 1 Green Pluot growing on my tree this morning.
    Bloody Squirrels
    Feed the soil, not the plants.
    (helps if you have cluckies)

    Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
    Bob

  • #2
    Bad luck there.

    There's me thinking that a Pluot was a city runaround made by Renault.

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    • #3
      That's going to be hard to forget

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      • #4
        Ready stuffed squirrel for Sunday lunch per chance?
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        • #5
          Originally posted by fishpond View Post
          10 Green Pluots growing on my tree
          9 Green Pluots growing on my tree
          8 Green Pluots growing on my tree
          7 Green Pluots growing on my tree
          6 Green Pluots growing on my tree
          5 Green Pluots growing on my tree
          4 Green Pluots growing on my tree
          3 Green Pluots growing on my tree
          2 Green Pluots growing on my tree for 3 weeks
          Then there was 1 Green Pluot growing on my tree this morning.
          Bloody Squirrels
          As of this morning, Squirrels 10, me nil.
          Ah well, there is always next year.
          Feed the soil, not the plants.
          (helps if you have cluckies)

          Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
          Bob

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          • #6
            I wonder if you had sprayed them with chilli they may have left them alone????

            Might be worth buying a few bruised apricots and spraying them, then leaving them in the tree???

            Don't know if it would work but might be worth a try if you aren't prepared to trap and humainly destroy the squirrel? ( I'm presuming it's one of our American visitors???)
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            • #7
              Well- that was a good guess...it should work a treat!!!

              The RSPB: News: Spice up your bird food to deter pesky squirrels

              no idea if it would taint the skin but it might work if peeling them afterwards got rid of the chilli flavour?
              If it does taint them, then you'd need to eat them after a curry, then you wouldn't notice!!!

              Enough of my ramblings
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              • #8
                Many Thanks Nicos, brilliant.
                I wonder if it would work for Gages?
                Only one way to find out.
                Feed the soil, not the plants.
                (helps if you have cluckies)

                Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
                Bob

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                • #9
                  we spray some cooking oil onto peanuts meant for the birds then dust them with paprika, the birds don't mind as they don't have tongues like us or squirrels but the treerats soon caught on and don't go near them now, I will have to do that with a few picked cherries and strawbs left by the plants to stop us losing all of them to a "very naughty boy" as my wife calls him....

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                  • #10
                    Seems that somehow the Pluot has deceased--no sign of life, but every other fruit tree is showing new buds at the very least.
                    I will give it another month or two, before I remove it.
                    Just wonder what killed it, it did have a very bad aphid attack early last spring & I do not think it got over that.
                    You never stop learning.
                    Feed the soil, not the plants.
                    (helps if you have cluckies)

                    Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
                    Bob

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                    • #11
                      Did you ever manage to taste a pluot?
                      The name puts me off buying one! How do you pronounce "pluot". Are they the same as Apriums which sound a lot nicer.

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                      • #12
                        Surely an Aprium is a Victorian folly, the ones with the dome roof and columns at the front but no front wall looking like little Greek temples.

                        I'd break my teeth if I tried to eat one of those.

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                        �I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
                        ― Thomas A. Edison

                        �Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
                        ― Thomas A. Edison

                        - I must be a Nutter,VC says so -

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                        • #13
                          Could your teeth cope with a Peacotum?
                          That sounds even less attractive than a pluot

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                          • #14
                            Pluot, Aprium, Peacotum have you lot been at the wine.

                            Don't know what you are all on about as I've never heard any of those names so I'm now going to bed then looking at the confused.com website in the morning see if they can explain what you are talking about.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                              Did you ever manage to taste a pluot?
                              The name puts me off buying one! How do you pronounce "pluot". Are they the same as Apriums which sound a lot nicer.
                              Nope, Squirrel did, but didn't leave any.

                              Pluot--pronounced as spelt--75% Plum/25% Apricot.
                              Aprium--75% Apricot/25% Plum.

                              Peacotum---50 / 50 cross between a Peacock and tumtum--stomach with pretty tail feathers-or maybe not.
                              Or:-A peacotum is a peach/apricot/plum hybrid, said to taste similar to fruit punch, trademarked by Zaiger's Genetics, a company that develops novel fruit through deliberate hybridization.
                              Last edited by fishpond; 09-03-2017, 07:52 AM. Reason: typo
                              Feed the soil, not the plants.
                              (helps if you have cluckies)

                              Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
                              Bob

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