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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

Cut the canes off at the ground and let suckers grow IF it isn't a
virus.

---- Original Message ----
From: jimfruth@charter.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Blackberry........fungus?
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 08:36:56 -0500

>    My Fort Kent King Blackberries have what looks like a fungus and
>I don't 
>know how to treat it or even if it is treatable.  The symptoms are
>leaves 
>that are slightly more crinkled than normal, all with a yellow
>fringe. 
>Where all normal canes produce flower buds, these infected canes
>produce 
>only foliage.  What is it and how to doctor it?
>    I saw it last year for the first time and sprayed it with the
>fungicide 
>I use to spray tomatoes (Daconil) but the blackberries just laughed
>at me. 
>This year, all of the original plants are infected but, surprisingly,
>none 
>of the suckers have it.
>
>
>Jim Fruth
>Brambleberry Farm
>Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
>For jams, jellies, syrups and more:
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>1-877-265-6856 (Toll Free)
>1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)
> 
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