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  • From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
  • To: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Spraying pears
  • Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:35:47 -0500


I've never used a fungicide on pears. Like Donna, the most serious pest I've
observed is fireblight.


I'll just keep an eye on them, then. I worry about staying ahead of these things (partly, I suppose, because my oriental fruit moth problem - on peaches and pluots, mainly - has just gotten worse and worse every year).

And yes, I've got fireblight on a nearby apple, so I'll have to watch that, too.


Codling moth has been a problem on Asian pears and on some cultivars of Asian
hybrids, so I might bag them in the future.


That's a good idea. I don't have that many Asian pears, so it would be doable. (And each fruit is so large that I'd get more bang for the buck in protecting them.)


For whatever reason, I haven't seen significant codling moth damage on
European pears.


I finally planted two European pears last year, and they're still very small (one of them was broken completely in half in shipping), so it will be awhile before I have to worry about them. But I've got three Asian pears which have just started to produce fruit (with the exception of three or four pears last year).

Thanks,

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

--
"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" - Joseph N. Welch to Republican Senator Joe McCarthy, 1954




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