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  • From: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>
  • To: NAFEX <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] bitter pit question
  • Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:24:31 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

Thanks, Ed.

It might be frogeye, but it wouldn't be classic there either because the
leaves are pretty much symptomless. The leaves are green and shiny except
for one broken branch where the leaves have a small amount of grey scurf on
the underside. Still, a fungal pathogen makes sense. This tree received no
fungicide sprays this year.

Anton
Zone 8, piedmont North Carolina

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed Fackler <ed.fackler@gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 23, 2009 1:23 PM
>To: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>, North American Fruit Explorers
><nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] bitter pit question
>
>Anton:
>
> If there are symptoms on the foliage which (at first glance) appears to
>be cedar apple rust, the problem could be related to a disease called
>frogeye leafspot (on apple....black rot on grape). Otherwise I don't have a
>clue. Sundance is hypersensative to frogeye.
>
>ed
>
>On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Anton Callaway
><marillen@earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>> I have a young 'Sundance' apple tree the produced its first crop this year.
>> The fruit, as it matures, develops sunken purplish regions that are very
>> bitter to taste and have dead brown cells underneath.
>>
>> However, it's not classic bitter pit in one sense... the lesions are mostly
>> on the stem end of the fruit, not the calyx end. How common is that
>> distribution? Is there something else it could be?
>>
>> Some background on this tree that may be informative... It was the one
>> apple tree that I did not thin adequately, thus the crop was too big for
>> the
>> tree. Also, it received calcium acetate sprays approximately every other
>> week from petal fall to midsummer (which I would think would reduce bitter
>> pit). No other trees in the orchard have this disorder and all other
>> apples
>> got the calcium sprays.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any thoughts on the subject.
>>
>> Anton
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