Beginner Gardening: Do Italian Plum trees produce suckers?, 1 by tacomagardener

tacomagardener wrote:
I was given a small 2 ft. plum tree about 5 or 6 yrs. ago. It has never flowered. Was told recently that suckers don't bear fruit, but my friend says he's never seen suckers around the bigger trees, and figured this one came from a pit. It is slow growing and last year looked sick so I cut it back about 1/3. Only about 4 ft. tall now. Should I get rid of it or will it eventually flower? I only have that tree and an Avalon Peach. They are both self-pollinators.