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  • From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] replant disease or Armillarea?
  • Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:36:45 -0400

I'm curious about this as my land and my neighbors' land is heavy in both oak
and seedling crab apples.
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Ginda
eastern ma, zone 6
..... Original Message .......
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:34:30 -0500 "Kieran &/or Donna"
<holycow@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
>I remember seeing an abandoned orchard once and someone said that the trees
>got oak rot or something like that. I've read since that when apple trees
>are planted on ground where Armillarea was in the oaks, they will grow till
>they get it too. If you take them out and try really hard to remove the
>roots, the next batch of trees will grow fine till they finally get their
>roots down deep enough to find the fungus, and then they die too. There are
>some pear rootstocks that are pretty resistant to this, others succumb
>easily. I think Winter Nelis is the resistant one. It's susc to blight, so
>plant it with the union at or below ground. Donna
>_____________________________________




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