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[Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca>]

Dennis,
Excuse my ignorance... What is Assail? Is it a chemical insecticide - of 
what type? Is it accepted for bio growing?

Have you tried Surround?

Claude Jolicoeur,
Quebec.


At 12:39 2006-09-21, you wrote:
> We have been growing apples, peaches, plums and pears here at Royal Oak Farm
> since 1992.  We have the same plum curculio issues you all seem to be faced
> with, but we use Assail for them with good success.  Since we are an IPM
> orchard, we try to control our pest with as little spraying as possible. We
> have no greater pressure on the plum trees than we do on the apples.  This
> year was especially heavy for PC, but Assail did do the job.  We also use
> Assail for codling moth and try to time the curculio spray with the codling
> moth spray.  Assail calls for a higher rate for curcullio so we use the
> curculio rate.  Granted, we use our data from our wireless weather station
> to give us the correct timing, but if you spray at plum petal fall that
> should take care of them.  Imidan is also good on curculio as well as
> codling moth.  Imidan is a contact spray and Assail has to be ingested.
> With Assail you will still see some strikes on the fruit, but  you will have
> to decide if that is acceptable.  Just thought I would toss in my 2 cents
> worth!
>
> Dennis Norton
> Royal Oak Farm Orchard
> http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
> http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com