Plum plant still in dormancy?

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  1. Outgoing

    Outgoing Seedling

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    I have a plum plant Satsuma are full of leaves, it is about 3 years old (1.5 metre tall) and got some flowers although they are dropped. (Now is early spring here in Australia)
    I have another plum plant dug out, 2 metre tall(unknown variety but seems similar to Satsuma) 2 months ago and repotted in a 60cm pot.
    Now in early spring there are no leaves come out, although few small branches are in green so I assume it is still alive.

    Any reason still no leaves? May be when I dug out hurt some roots?
     

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    I would give it some time to see what it does.
     
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    It is still the same, no new leaves come out.
    Should I cut it down to, say, 1 metre from the soil surface? remove all the branches.
     
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    I would scrape the bark with a knife. If there is green, moist cambium under the bark, I wouldn't cut that off. If it's totally dry or brown, I would cut that stem off.

    It might be dead. Or late waking up.
     
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