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OK, this is getting embarrassing. I
meant to send this off-list. Perhaps early on-set Alzheimer's is setting
in.
Mark
KS
----- Original Message -----
From:
Mark & Helen Angermayer
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Surround efficacy
OFF-LIST
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
----- Original Message -----
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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