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One of our practices here at Royal Oak Farm is doing our copper spray (Champ 
IIF) immediately after we have finished our pruning.  We spray the entire 
orchard (12,000+ trees) including peaches, pears  and plums.  Since it takes 
us about 8 weeks to prune, our copper spray is usually timed with apple tree 
silver tip.

On peach trees, if you have to make more than a 3/4" pruning cut, do it in 
May or June at the peak growing time for the tree and it will heal over 
faster.  When I have to make a larger cut, I use apple cider vinegar to 
spray the cut as soon as it is made.  After the cut has dried over I go back 
and use Tanglefoot to seal it, but only the Tanglefoot with a latex base.

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
http://www.revivalhymn.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tanis grif" <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] advice for Wound cover for large pruning cuts on 
stonefruit


> Interesting, but he says wait a year before treating-- did I read that 
> right?  I
> think it was on this list that someone posted about mushroom culture, you 
> have to
> innoculate fresh-cut logs because cut surfaces are infected IMMEDIATELY w/ 
> ambient
> species of fungal spores from the air.  Does the copper fungicide even 
> kill fungal
> infections which have been growing in the wood for a year?  That's a 
> little scary.
>
> I also like some of the other posts there, about "how much effort and 
> money do you
> want to invest in a MAPLE?"
>
>
> --- K Q <> wrote:
>
> > Read the treatment recommended by a fellow called Spruceman at the 
> > following link.
> > I thought it was pretty interesting.
> >
> > http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/trees/msg011051582792.html
> >
> > Kenneth Q.
>
>
>
>
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