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Hi Chris,
I'm considering getting my applicator's license,
but haven't done it yet. One of the things holding me back is, in Kansas,
you have to post when you've sprayed. I don't want to set my neighbors on
edge by posting a sign saying I've sprayed. I already feel self-conscious
and wonder what my neighbors are thinking when I put on my respirator and
spray. How do you handle this? Is there any advice you can offer in
getting the applicator's license? How are the recordkeeping
requirements? Have you been inspected yet? That's another
issue. I really don't have anywhere to store my chemicals except in the
garage. I'm a little concerned an inspector would fuss about that.
Thanks for any advice.
Mark
KS
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Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 10:28 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Surround efficacy
I tried Surround for three years. I have pretty much
given up on it (I have some left, but I haven't sprayed any this year).
My spray program is 'troubled' in that with my regular work, children,
etc. I have grave difficulty getting the right timing (and weather
conditions) to spray. My spray program often breaks down (i.e. no
further spraying) around June. I have generally gotten very few apples,
and fast rottening plums and apricots. Asian pears (with the
exception of internal browning, which isn't directly related) did
ok.
This year I decided I wanted to get fruit, so I purchase Imidan,
Assault for insect control and Captan and Sulfur for fungicide control (these
weren't my first choices but the other pesticides I initially considered were
out of my price range). Thus far, I've kept my program up, and things
are looking pretty good. I'd like to bag my fruit, but I don't know if I
can get to it.
I have about 20 apple trees, 10 pear, 5 plum, 4 peach, 3
apricot and 3 cherry (and lots of other berries, and minor fruit, which
generally don't get sprayed. I have a 20 gallon electric pump sprayer
powered by a 12 volt tractor battery ( generally spray about 10 gallons at a
time, as I move the sprayer around by handcart, and more than that is more
than I want to haul).
My problems w/ Surround:
Tends to clog the
sprayer.
Not adequate control.
Washes off very easily.
Makes
neighbors nervous about what you're doing.
Difficult to get off of
fruit.
If 1 and 2 were better, I'd still use it, but as it doesn't, I
think I'll keep up with the standard spray regimen.
Went to a
Cooperative Extension Twilight Fruit meeting yesterday evening to learn
and earn credits toward my pesticide license renewal (the following only
really applies to PA). Here's what I remember:
Bad year for
diseases, often been cold but with warm periods w/ heavy (splashing) rains.
There may have been brown rot infection periods for stone fruit during
bloom, which may not appear to the fruit begins
to color/ripen. Spray at fruit coloring up. Fireblight
danger, try to remove infected wood before damaged growth turns brown,
otherwise may have already spread deep into scaffold limbs.
Second generation of Coddling Moth starting. This weekend
through next week are important times for control. In PA Brood XIV of
Cicada coming this year.
Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6
40° 5' N 75°
51'W
~650 ft elevation
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