[NAFEX] white fruit trees
Betty Mayfield
bmayfield at opusnet.com
Sun Mar 21 20:58:40 EDT 2010
Thanks, John. Another reason I suspected a spray was that some of the
fields had white trees while other fields had white bushes, which
were probably some kind of berries.
Betty
At 05:18 PM 3/21/2010, John wrote:
>A product called "Surround" can leave trees looking white although I
>think it might be a little early for that. My understanding (I do
>not use it myself) is that it is used to protect fruit from insect
>damage organically.
>
>
>
>--- On Sun, 3/21/10, Betty Mayfield <bmayfield at opusnet.com> wrote:
>From: Betty Mayfield <bmayfield at opusnet.com>
>Subject: [NAFEX] white fruit trees
>To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
>Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 4:47 PM
>To the list,
>While driving on the highway near Wenatchee, Washington (a great
>fruit-growing area) this weekend we noticed field after field of pure
>white fruit trees, in addition to an occasional field of the usual
>grayish-brown trees.
>I thought it might be some sort of early spring spray, but others
>suggested it might be a variety or varieties with white bark. Every
>bit of the tree was white - trunk and all of the branches, giving the
>fields a rather ghostly appearance.
>Any idea what this might be? By the way, it was a beautiful sunny
>day, with no rain to wash off anything that might have been sprayed.
>Betty Mayfield
>northwest Oregon
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