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- From: Hélène Dessureault <interverbis@videotron.ca>
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Trouble in paradise? (apple tree)
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:38:00 -0500
While it is true that some borers bore very devious
paths, I used the poking wire with good success at my place. I had the
borers problem for quite some years before I understood the nature of the
problem, which had reach epidemic proportion before I started doing something
about it (I found more than one specimen in a single small apple tree of 2
inches in diameter and another completely severed at ground level. The tree
actually stayed in my hand).
When you poke the hole with a wire, you can tell
when the poking has worked because the production of frass near the boring hole
stops. If there is new frass the day following the execution !?!, you can try
again. I have never had to poke into the hole more than twice (two days in a
row) to achieve success. I have to admit though that I have also injected an
organic insecticide with a seringe on Day 2, sometimes, to make sure. That
seems to work also. In the last few years, I was able to observe that the
population of borers was greatly diminished so that I usually find a few
isolated cases here and there during the season, but not anything too
troublesome.
Hélène
Zone 3-4, north of Ottawa
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[NAFEX] Trouble in paradise? (apple tree),
Steve, 03/16/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Trouble in paradise? (apple tree),
Amanda Emily, 03/16/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Trouble in paradise? (apple tree),
Steve, 03/17/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Trouble in paradise? (apple tree),
David . Maxwell, 03/17/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Trouble in paradise? (apple tree), Hélène Dessureault, 03/17/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Trouble in paradise? (apple tree),
David . Maxwell, 03/17/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Trouble in paradise? (apple tree),
Steve, 03/17/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Trouble in paradise? (apple tree), dmnorton, 03/17/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Trouble in paradise? (apple tree),
Mark & Helen Angermayer, 03/17/2008
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[NAFEX] Pawpaws and rabbit damage?,
Mark & Helen Angermayer, 03/17/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Pawpaws and rabbit damage?,
Scott Williamson, 03/17/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Pawpaws and rabbit damage?, S & E Hills, 03/17/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Pawpaws and rabbit damage?, Hector Black, 03/17/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Pawpaws and rabbit damage?,
Scott Williamson, 03/17/2008
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[NAFEX] Pawpaws and rabbit damage?,
Mark & Helen Angermayer, 03/17/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Trouble in paradise? (apple tree),
Amanda Emily, 03/16/2008
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