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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] apple tree with fireblight
  • Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 19:22:07 -0500

fireblight is caused by a bacteria it could be all over your trees
and yard. Often carried by birds. You can buy an antibiotic to
spray which sometimes works. Note the sometimes.

---- Original Message ----
From: colleendaly@videotron.ca
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] apple tree with fireblight
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:02:15 -0400

>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> It certainly looks like "classic" fireblight to me. The
> variety is
>Egremont Russet.
> The tree is kind of squeezed in between a Mont-Royal plum and a
>Pomme Grise apple.
> Would the lack of air circulation contribute to fire-blight?
>
>
> Fortunately, I grafted some scions from this tree this spring but
>now I am wondering if the scions
> could be harbouring the disease or does it not work like that for
>fire-blight? Also, the tree
> is a poor producer of apples (quantity-wise) so perhaps eradication
>is the answer. 
>
>
> Sincerely,
>                                  Peter Drevniok, Gatineau, QC
> zone
>5
> 
>
>
>
>   
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Richard J. Ossolinski" <ossoeo@myfairpoint.net>
>Date: Friday, September 9, 2011 3:20 pm
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] apple tree with fireblight
>To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>
>> Peter,
>> Might be worth getting a positive/accurate diagnosis of the
>> malady prior to taking radical action.
>> Richard
>> Gouldsboro, ME  Zone 5
>>
>>
>> On Sep 9, 2011, at 2:07 PM, colleendaly@videotron.ca wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >  Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> >          Should
>> an apple tree (with about 20% of it's growth) affected with what
>> >  looks like fire-blight be removed entirely? Or should I
>> try to rehabilitate the tree?
>> >  It is an espaliered tree. I do not mind removing it if
>> it will be a source of disease for my
>> >  other trees.
>> >
>> >
>> >                          Sincerely,
>> >                                  Peter Drevniok, Gatineau, QC
>zone 5
>> >
>> >
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