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["David Doud" <doudone@netusa1.net>]

tg, varieties vary widely in their habits,  and one of those habits is
shedding aborted bloom/small apples -

Gala and Golden Russet and Spitzenberg,  for examples, tend to hold on to
blossoms and small incipient fruit into the next season -

and this has cultural implications - those small undeveloped fruit hang
there and serve as innoculum source for fruit rots -

I don't think there is any disease issue with scionwood -

regards, D Doud




----- Original Message -----
From: "tanis grif" <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:28 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] apple blossom disease?


>
> Funny what we notice & when we notice it....
>
> I just found, on some apple trees I've been looking at all winter, some
dead dried
> flowers which never fell off since spring.  They look just like a blossom
after
> petal-fall, but dry & brown.
>
> Most interesting, I notice this on 2 closely related cultivars, growing
> side-by-side, one tree has it but not the other.
>
> Any ideas on what this is?  If a disease, should I NOT be distributing
scionwood
> from my plantings until I get rid of this disease?

>