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[NAFEX] Growing apples for hard cider in NW Pennsylvania

From: Kingtut741@aol.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] Growing apples for hard cider in NW Pennsylvania
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:36:03 EDT

Hello, I'm in North Carolina zone 7, I've planted about twenty apple trees, have 5 that have bloomed, but fire blight has played havoc on them so far. Anyone else having this problem?

list of trees

Aunt Rachel light blight on one, none on the other.

Bevans Favorite

Fuji heavy blight,

Carolina Red June

Magnum Bonum

Gala

Brushey Mt Limbertwig

Old Fashion Limbertwig light blight

Newtown Pippin heavy blight

Liberty

Virgina Gold

Buckingham

Hardy Cumberland

Smokehouse

Hewes Crab

Rubinett

Mackintosh

About half are on b9 or m27 root stock,supported, the rest on mm111 .

Anthony Tuttle kingtut741@aol.com

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