>>1273I was going to make plum wine, but my tree is sick. Some kind of fungal disease from what I can gather online. Doing what I can to make sure the disease doesn't get worse. See attached pics.
Even though the plums aren't ripe at all they deteriorate and die.
At least some of the harvest is still okay, and if the net is to be trusted it gets killed by 3min at 43°C, so I made jam of the okay seeming fruit instead. The jam making entails simmering temps for half an hour, so I feel safe to eat that, but I'd still feel icky about making plum wine out of it.
>>1274If you have an ikea near you they have nice jars with glass lids that last forever (except they (at least here) have stopped selling the replacement gasket seals on their own, but with things like ginger bugs you can just omit the gaskets anyways and just place the glass tops on top, if you'd seal with gaskets they'd explode)
On the ginger bugs, I would guess rather than letting them sit too long you just had the fill level way too high. The time I had a ginger bug it was fizzing too much not to hear it when in the room but kept within it's jar all the same.