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- From: "Michael Phillips" <michael@herbsandapples.com>
- To: "'Doreen Howard'" <gardendiva@charter.net>, "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Cc:
- Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:48:39 -0500
Real experience here! Valuable nuance too. And so questions must naturally follow. What I’d like to hear from Doreen is
a few more details. I seem to recall you live in Wisconsin, right, so that
means a goodly share of apple scab, perhaps cedar apple rust, and the summer
diseases to contend with in the orchard. What are some of the apple varieties you
grow? And more specifically, what’s the timing of your neem seed oil
application(s)? Is this the Trilogy formulation? Are you using any other
fungicidal materials? Or compost teas? And lastly, how does your most disease
susceptible variety look at harvest time? As I understand it from long discussions
with Don Chapman, owner of Bio-Organics, fungicide drenches do the most harm to
mycorrhizae in the soil. Those sprayed on trees don't have as much impact. I
try to use fungicides like neem seed oil that act as barriers to fungus spores,
as opposed to fungicides that are taken up by plant cells. Doreen Howard, who inoculates everything with mycorrhizal fungi and
has the big harvests and healthy plants to prove the power of mycorrhizae. I
totally get it that micoorhizae are invaluable allies in the orchard. I’m
just more inclined to induce local culture for field-wide application over
paying someone $100 for microorganisms in a jar. Michael
Phillips Lost Nation
Orchard Heartsong Farm
Healing Herbs RFD |
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[NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides,
Michael Phillips, 03/05/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, Lon J. Rombough, 03/05/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides,
Doreen Howard, 03/05/2004
- RE: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, Michael Phillips, 03/05/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, Scott Williamson, 03/05/2004
- RE: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, del stubbs, 03/05/2004
- RE: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, tanis cuff, 03/05/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides,
Jwlehman, 03/06/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides,
Tom Olenio, 03/06/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides (leeks),
Dylan Ford, 03/06/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides (leeks), Tom Olenio, 03/06/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides,
loneroc, 03/06/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, Tom Olenio, 03/07/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides (leeks),
Dylan Ford, 03/06/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides,
Tom Olenio, 03/06/2004
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