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  • From: Michael Dossett <phainopepla@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] white fruit trees
  • Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:23:11 -0700 (PDT)

Betty,

I think what you were seeing was probably from dormant Lime Sulfur sprays.
This often leaves the bark of the trees white.

Michael

Michael Dossett
Corvallis, Oregon
www.Mdossettphoto.com
phainopepla@yahoo.com


--- On Sun, 3/21/10, Betty Mayfield <bmayfield@opusnet.com> wrote:

> From: Betty Mayfield <bmayfield@opusnet.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] white fruit trees
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 1:47 PM
> To the list,
>
> While driving on the highway near Wenatchee, Washington (a
> great
> fruit-growing area) this weekend we noticed field after
> field of pure
> white fruit trees, in addition to an occasional field of
> the usual
> grayish-brown trees.
>
> I thought it might be some sort of early spring spray, but
> others
> suggested it might be a variety or varieties with white
> bark. Every
> bit of the tree was white - trunk and all of the branches,
> giving the
> fields a rather ghostly appearance.
>
> Any idea what this might be? By the way, it was a beautiful
> sunny
> day, with no rain to wash off anything that might have been
> sprayed.
>
> Betty Mayfield
> northwest Oregon
>
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