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  • From: nottke1 <nottke1@earthlink.net>
  • To: Nafex <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Effects of the Easter Freeze
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:42:27 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

I have an orchard with several varieties of pear and apple, trees range in
age from 3 yrs to 100 years (old pears). Over the past ten years, I would
occasionally get modest fire blight damage if the weather was damp and cool
during bloom time - some quick pruning always seemed to control it.
But this year the Easter morning freeze occurred when the pears were in full
bloom and fire blight has appeared everywhere, but particularly on the large
old pear trees. A couple of these old pear trees are 25 ft tall and 60 ft
crown spread, making pruning out of all the fireblight difficult. So I
vigorously pruned out blight on the younger small trees, and only lost one 4
yr old Kieffer, on which the blight went into the trunk. On the large trees
I did some pruning, but left mother nature to take care of a lot of it. The
blight on the older trees seems to be affecting only the previous years
growth and is not spreading further, so my plan is to prune it all out this
coming winter, when I have more time.

Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC



  • [NAFEX] Effects of the Easter Freeze, nottke1, 06/13/2007

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