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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

Thanks to everyone who answered.   My trees clearly have more serious problems than CAR.  (Winter moths completely defoliated them - essentially every leaf on some of them grew after the WM were done for the season.  I have deer, too.)

A second question - Something has infected my crab apple.  It's some random seedling crab with little yellow ( think) fruit of no interest.  However, this year quite a lot of the fruit is infected with something.  The clean fruit hasn't begun to ripen, but a large fraction of the fruits have shriveled up, turned brown, and some have just sprouted some kind of fungal fruiting bodies. The shape of the fruiting bodies is flat and round - not anything like the pointy CAR blemishes on the bottom of some leaves.  Actually, the crab leaves aren't much affected by CAR.  A few blotches, but nothing on most of the leaves.

The domestic apples don't have any fruit, all the buds having been eaten by winter moths.  So no comparison.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ginda

eastern MA, zone 6

hot summer was dry, but has just turned very muggy.

On Aug 13, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Richard MURPHY wrote:

Dear Ginda;

 

I have 2 trees that have one or two CAR 'zits' every other leaf.

It has never affected the fruit.

BUT...

I once had a tree that got it REAL bad; defoliated & croaked.

SO...

Mild CAR is cool; Heavy CAR you better kill the counterpart (source) or the apple tree may die.

 

Richard Murphy  zone 5/6 eastern MA and zone 4 Maine

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