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  • From: "K Q" <kumquat@operamail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Apricot fungus, was lime sulfur
  • Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:33:41 -0800

Chris,

Apricot wood makes one of the best smokes around for smoking meats and fish.
The only wood I know of that exceeds it is citrus wood. So keep that in mind
before you cut it up for firewood!

Another item, only remove your tree in mid-august or so. If it is grafted
onto any kind of plum rootstock, it will likely sucker alot less the next
spring or none at all. I once had an apricot felled by the wind in winter and
had nothing but rootsuckers coming up everywhere. Not a bad thing if you need
lots of rootstock starts though :)




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> I have a cherry tree with a fungal problem. White mushrooms
> growing from tree trunk.

> Can lime/sulfur be added to latex paint, and painted directly on
> the fungi to kill them?

I have a similar problem with an apricot tree. The tree is about 4-5
inches in diamter, and the visible fungi has spread to about half the
trunk diameter and extends from the ground into where the tree begins
branching.

Observation. I too have the white fungi, though mine looks more like
shelf fungi. I believe they only came after the bark/tissue was
already dead. I believe the problem started when the tree received
winter damage from cracking bark (warm sun followed by freezing
temperatures). The bark began to ooze. I call this 'gummosis', but
I believe this was only a symptom not the cause. Possibly a
bacterial infection?

What I'm planning to do. I kept expecting the tree to die, but its
been going on for 3 years like this, with the dead area gradually
widening. I think the healthy remaining tissue cannot recover as the
moist/dead tissue is continuing to infect the healthy tissue, and the
dead tissue blocks the regrowth. So unless someone has a convincing
anti-argument, I'm going to remove the diseased dead tissue/bark with
a chisel.

This should allow the wood underneath to dry out and not remain a
source of fungi. The healthy tissue (theoretically), should be able
to grow back over. Thoughts are welcome.

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6
40? 5' N 75? 51'W
~650 ft elevation

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