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- From: "Brungardt, Sam (MPCA)" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry leaves
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:45:00 -0500
Donna, don’t be too critical of Crandall. It was
selected in Newton, Kansas, where the growing season is, for the most part, hot
and dry and windy. A native plant will display disease resistance
as long as we do not grow it in an environment much different from that in which
it originated. – Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn. (USDA Zone 4b) From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Kieran and/or
Donna No
it's not pollution, I have the same problem way out in the country. My
old gooseberry leafs out every spring, makes a rather spare crop, loses leaves
all summer, but looks a little better now. My new gooseberries
bought last fall, looked really good early on, lost nearly all their leaves in
the heat of summer, and now have nice green new leaves on the tips of
all the branches. We have been in drought, then had 2 weeks in a row with
a half inch each of those weeks, and I think that brought on the new
leaves. It's been too dry to water them much. I've just
tried to keep the peppers, winter squash and tomatoes going. Usually I
have some water to spare for my young fruit trees, not this year. Seems
to me that most of the leaves fell off in the hot dry time, not the wet.
Mind you, we had a wet few days here and there, enough to cause plenty of early
blight on the tomatoes. It would kill a bunch of tomato leaves and then
it would be dry for weeks on end. So I guess anthracnose could have
struck and wiped out leaves quickly when I wasn't looking. Does it act
like that? I'd see a few brown speckles, maybe the next week
those leaves were already gone. I never saw any leaves that looked really
bad like they should be falling off.
The new black currants, Ben Lomand and Black Down looked good all summer.
Sure they had some brown spots on the leaves, but they kept nearly every
leaf. Ben Sarek defoliated maybe 6-8 weeks ago, with bright green buds
for next year, and now has one new branch that is fully leafed. My new
Crandall defoliated early and has hardly had a leaf all through the hot
weather, doesn't look any better now. So much for disease resistance in
native plants. Not dead... but maybe I'd better move it to some better
soil. Same for the Ben Sarek. The others are all on good garden
soil. Donna |
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[NAFEX] ribes anthracnose,
Alan Haigh, 09/14/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] ribes anthracnose,
John Barbowski, 09/14/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry leaves,
Kieran and/or Donna, 09/16/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry leaves, John S, 09/17/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry leaves, Brungardt, Sam (MPCA), 09/17/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry leaves,
david liezen, 09/17/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry leaves,
Kieran and/or Donna, 09/18/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry leaves,
david liezen, 09/18/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry leaves, Lee Reich, 09/18/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry leaves,
david liezen, 09/18/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry leaves,
Kieran and/or Donna, 09/18/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry leaves,
Kieran and/or Donna, 09/16/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] ribes anthracnose,
John Barbowski, 09/14/2010
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