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  • From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple gall?
  • Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 21:06:17 -0400

Thanks.  Two years ago something that might have been that affected my usually clean crab apple.  One fine day in the winter I went out and laboriously removed every mummied fruit and threw them into the municipal garbage.  Last year I had very little disease, and no mummies.

Last year was an unusually good year for apples around here, and everyone had good luck, despite lots of rain.  (Or maybe because of lots of well-times rain.)  But my experience suggests that sanitation can help for the home grower.

Of course, I might have had some other pathogen.

Ginda
eastern MA, zone 6



Nicko,
 
If the mummies looked like the ones at http://www.uky.edu/Ag/IPM/appleipm/appleipm/dis-cont.php then they are probably remnants of apple scab and you will need to follow a regimented scab spray program this season.   If you missed my posts from previous weeks on scab control, I'll be happy to e-mail it to you.  Hope this helps!
 
Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:04 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Apple gall?

In my pruning this spring in central Vermont, I have come across very swollen buds, many with miserable looking, poorly developed, fruit still clinging on. most of the swollen parts were on buds, some were at branch crotches of one and two year wood. I dissected the buds and it looked like they might be galls. What are they? Do I need to manage them in a particular way? they are particularly abundant on one of my old trees. 
Thanks.
-Nicko Rubin
East Hill Tree Farm

3496 East Hill Rd
Plainfield, VT 05667
802-272-5880
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