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  • From: "O'Barr, R. D." <topgun@otelco.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] NAFEX] Rosseyanka
  • Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 18:32:59 -0600

Are you sure it is Manganese deficency? In Louisiana the wetter sites with
pecans had the highest Manganese levels. I ran over 1,000 samples over
several years and this was the trend. Corn can show stripes from Magnesium
as well as zinc deficiencies.

R. D. O'Barr
Zone 7
----- Original Message -----
From: "kieran or donna" <redherring@tnaccess.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:28 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] NAFEX] Rosseyanka


> Jerry said:
> "Yes, I believe Rosseyanka
> is less susceptible to KSD, especially seeing it is so winter hardy. David
> heavily fertilized his was and I suspect went into the winter too tender,
> was
> damaged, ...shepherd hooked, but not killed"
>
> I grafted Rosseyanka on native persimmon, it didn't wait till winter but
> went straight into the shepherd's crook shape. I chopped the tree to the
> ground and burned it. I kinda suspect now that manganese toxicity as
> someone mentioned once might be behind it, as the tree was on very acid
> clay. Could the native trees think nothing of high Mn levels, while it
> kills the kakis? I don't have kakis to compare, as I don't like them very
> much. The tree I grafted back in east TN did fine, but the soil wasn't
> nearly as acidic there. The weird thing is that where we have limed, (ran
> the garden up to about 6.4 though I'm sure it's dropping) the corn shows
Mn
> deficiency each and every year. The only way I have found to deal with it
> is to throw some sulfur around. High pH, high organic matter, and high
> rainfall are a recipe for low Mn uptake. All I can control is the pH.
This
> year we didn't have to worry about the high rainfall, (got 1" per mo in
Sept
> and Oct, hot months too, with intense sunlight beating down daily) and the
> corn was still yellow striped till it got some sulfur. Donna
>
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