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- From: Bob Hartman <hartmansfruittrees@wport.com>
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] home orchard problems
- Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 20:04:28 -0700
Ro,
Are you sure it was scab? I have seen Liberty with some russet on the fruit.
Some people may mistake the
russet for scab. Russet sometimes on non-russet apples can be caused by
freezing at a certain time after
blooming and I don't remember just when. Also some sprays when applied
shortly after blooming can cause some
russet.
Bob Hartman
Western Washington
baylands wrote:
> I'm surely not an expert on this, but doesn't most of the fruit literature
> advise that fruit trees on dwarfing root stock have about a 20 year life
> expectancy? It would seem to me that your trees have grown old.
>
> I have a mixture of apple trees on dwarf, semidwarf and standard rootstock.
> Last year was the biggest crop of apples that I have had since starting the
> orchard 15 years ago. The fruit was so heavy that many of the limbs were
> breaking from the trees. This year 90% of the trees have no fruit at all.
> The heavy crop last year stressed them too much. The trees are very healthy.
> I've summer pruned so that they will be discouraged from overbearing next
> year after their year off this year. (The trees were of many different
> varieties ---- heirloom and new disease resistant types.)
>
> I have a question. My 14 year old Liberty Apple (scab resistant) has been
> without scab since it started bearing. Last year the heavy crop had what
> appeared to be heavy scab on all the apples. This year with a very small
> crop there was once again no evidence of scab. Why? What happened? Did it
> lose its resistence for one year and then get it back again?
>
> Ro Chapman
> The Baylands
> Port Clinton, Ohio Zone 5
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[NAFEX] Nut Wine,
Doreen Howard, 10/01/2004
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[NAFEX] Nut Wine,
Doreen Howard, 10/01/2004
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[NAFEX] home orchard problems,
Jacquelyn Kuehn, 10/02/2004
- [NAFEX] Filbert Skins, Thomas Olenio, 10/02/2004
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RE: [NAFEX] home orchard problems,
baylands, 10/02/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] home orchard problems,
Bob Hartman, 10/02/2004
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RE: [NAFEX] home orchard problems,
baylands, 10/02/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] home orchard problems,
Lon J. Rombough, 10/03/2004
- RE: [NAFEX] home orchard problems, baylands, 10/04/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] home orchard problems,
Lon J. Rombough, 10/03/2004
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RE: [NAFEX] home orchard problems,
baylands, 10/02/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] home orchard problems,
Bob Hartman, 10/02/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] home orchard problems, David Baldwin, 10/03/2004
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[NAFEX] home orchard problems,
Jacquelyn Kuehn, 10/02/2004
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