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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> My pluots are verging on complete failure at this point, they are very much 
> west-coast fruits.
>   


Why is that, Scott? Is it because of disease problems, you mean?

As an experiment, I planted three pluots last spring, though I had my 
doubts at how they'd do. Still, it's probably a lot drier here in 
Nebraska than in Maryland, so disease pressure (if that's the problem) 
might not be so bad here.

For what it's worth, my young trees grew great this year, but they were 
hit hard by Oriental Fruit Moths. Now that I know what the problem is, 
I'll have to work at spraying more regularly.

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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