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So, heavy pruning now and traps next year and there may be salvation? Thanks for the advice folks. A tree's life's demise has been reprieved. (Oh and the repartee....you do realize I set that up as a sideline? No thread is worth starting if it doesn't have a sideline :wink: )

My 35 year old plum tree (I think it is Victoria but it fruits early - mid July - albeit this is warm North Kent) is a mess. There are cankers (a fungus) and this year every plum has a pinprick hole and a maggot inside (a green one found today, the bastard). On the tree the plums leak an amber...