Oklahoma Wild Sand Plums
Sit back and relax as the Okie Prepper takes you for a drive down an Oklahoma back road in search of Wild Sand Plums. Then the Preppers Wife will do a how-to on making and canning Sand Plum Jelly, mm mm mm yum!
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Wild Sand Plum Jelly
4 pounds ripe sand plums
1 cup water
1 package powdered pectin
6 cups sugar
Wash and pick over the plums; do not pit or peel. Crush them in the bottom of a large enameled pot with the 1 cup of water, bring to a boil, simmer for 15 minutes. Crush again with a vegetable masher as the fruit softens.
Strain through a jelly bag/or strainer; add a little water to bring the measure up to 5 cups of juice. Return juice to the pot, reserving 1 cup in which to mix the pectin; combine pectin and reserved juice, add back to pot and bring to a full boil, stirring constantly. Add the sugar, continue stirring, and boil hard for 2 minutes.
Remove from heat, skim, and immediately pour into hot sterile half-pint jars, leaving 1/4-inch head-space. Cap and give a 5 minute hot water bath.
Yields approx. 8 half pint jars.
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The bushes we have picked from are scraggly and grow along the dusty country gravel roads. No one waters them. I can't imagine that they'd be that hard to grow. Here in our part of Oklahoma, sand plums, are also referred as Thicket Plums or Chickasaw Plums (after all, our part of OK is the Chickasaw Nation). The predominantly grow along fence-lines along the back roads and highways. They often form extensive thickets , and I usually see them growing in poor sandy soil, poor clay soil and sometimes in pretty decent sandy loam Here's what I can tell you about sand plums, and I'm no expert either.
GROWING FROM SEED:
To grow from seed, collect the plums from the trees after the fruit is fully filled-out and firm. Let the fruit get as ripe as you can but be sure to collect some before the birds strip the trees of all the fruit. Clean the seeds of pulp and let them air dry before you store them. You only want to air dry them for a short time--just a few hours if it is very humid or up to one day if the air is very dry. It is better to dry them indoors in moderate temperatures and out of direct sunlight because too much heat/sunlight can induce a tougher dormancy period.
If you want, you can sow your summer to early-fall collected seed without drying, or you can cold-stratify the seed in the refrigerator. The idea temps for cold stratification of wild plum seed are 31 to 41 degrees according to sources. If you want to plant in the fall, get your seeds into the beds in September so they have time for some after-ripening before cold weather arrives. You can winter sow plum seeds (pits) in late January to late February or you can plant them in a cold frame at about that time. Cold-stratified plum seeds germinate best when nighttime temps are in the 50s and daytime temps are in the 70s.
GROWING FROM CUTTINGS: You can grow native plums from dormant hardwood cuttings, softwood cuttings, semihardwood cuttings or from root cuttings. The easiest way for most people (especially if you haven't raised trees or shrubs from cuttings before) is to use semihardwood cuttings taken in the early to mid summer. Take your semihardwood cuttings from the tips of branches, from new stems that are just barely beginning to turn woody at the base. If you cut them before they are beginning to turn woody, they are likely to rot before they root. Dip your cuttings into a rooting hormone (you can try willow water if you don't have or can't find rooting hormone) and place them in a tray of moist perlite/peat. Keep moist either by placing them under a mister or by misting them frequently. Some people place the tray of cuttings in a sealed plastic bag (like a giant zip-lock) to hold in moisture. Generally, they should begin to show root growth in 30 days or less.
A popular way for any of the native plums is to dig one up from the forest and transplant them into the yard. For sand plums, you often can sever a newer smaller sprout with a sharp spade and transplant it into a new area as long as the sprout or sucker has developed some root to sustain it once it is separated from the mother plant.
To plant them, give them the same conditions in which they are found in the wild. Many native plants grow best in native (unamended) soil and with as little supplemental water as possible. Because these plants are adapted to survive in the real world in tough conditions, they can have trouble adjusting to enriched soil, and heavy fertilizer/water. One reason you don't transplant native plants into rich potting soil or heavily amended native soil is that the native plants are very susceptible to the kinds of bacteria common in such enriched soil since they have not been exposed to those bacteria in more lean, more arid native soil.
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