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  • From: Alan Yelvington <alany@semparpac.org>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [nafex] Fire blight from apple pruning cuts
  • Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 13:04:06 -0400

Help? I'm am being vexed by fire blight resulting from winter pruning cuts.

I use alcohol to sanitize my shears, and I seal the wounds when damp weather is imminent using grafting sealer.

Frankly, it's causing me to be far less aggressive in my pruning than I should be, and my trees are a mess.

Somebody R.S.V.P.

Al in Russell, PA




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