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  • From: John Smith <friendly27sw@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Peach Disease - scab or bacterial spot
  • Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:48:28 -0700 (PDT)

I think I may have experienced both the fungal scab
and bacterial spot on my peaches in the past. Can
anyone tell me an easy way to tell the difference
between the two? I swear I've seen pictures of both
that can look pretty much the same.

Central MO

--- Don Yellman <don.yellman@webformation.com> wrote:

> Dennis:
>
> I have had both bacterial spot (which also visibly
> affects the leaves) and peach scab in past years,
> and managed to eliminate them with timely dormant
> sprays of Kocide. Neither of these diseases
> resulted in blobs of pectin on the fruit, and the
> photo in your referenced link, which looks exactly
> like what I had, shows none.
>
> You may not have serious oriental fruit moth
> infestations in northern Illinois, but in the east
> and southeast we do. While we have yet to hear from
> Shirley with perhaps a better description of the
> problem on her little peach fruits, and a more
> specific location than zone 7, she does live in the
> southeast somewhere, and that is where the OFM is
> most active. In many southeastern orchards, the OFM
> will visit every peach on the tree if allowed to do
> so, leaving from 1 to 3 little blobs of pectin on
> the surface. Such fruits will soon contain OFM
> larvae, which tunnel around near the pit and usually
> cause the fruit to drop prematurely. Even OFM
> penetrations that do not result in larvae compromise
> the integrity of the skin, which causes brown rot
> later in the season. When I spray for OFM early in
> the season, I also include a fungicide like Captan
> in the mix to prevent other early problems of
> peaches: small patches of powdery mildew and rusty
> spot. When either of these is visib
> le on a peach at thinning time, that is one to take
> off.
>
> The oriental fruit moth can also affect the twigs of
> trees when the larvae tunnel in, leaving swollen
> ends on small branches, and causing twig and even
> branch dieback.
>
> The only things the OFM likes better than peaches
> are smooth-skinned stone fruits such as nectarines
> or pluots. To grow such fruits in the southeast,
> you pretty much have to stand by the tree with a
> sprayer all season long, or bag the fruits after
> thinning.
>
> Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA
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