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Red Cedar trees are a host for Cedar Apple
Rust. The best bet is to find a new home for the birds. We used to be able to
use Zineb for Rust but I don’t believe it is available anymore. Judson L.
Frisk From:
nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Zeugitai The local nurseryman
warned me that apples and cedars "co-host." I nodded and took
it to mean that they harbor mutually antagonistic organisms, but that was just
my guess. I have one old cedar tree in front by the drainage ditch. It's always
cut down to twenty feet by the power company people, but has a twenty foot
spread to it. It might as well be a bird hotel for all the birds living
in it: brown thrasher, mockingbird, sparrows, blackbirds, mourning doves....
But I have put in young apple trees all around the house varying from a minimum
of 40 feet away going back to a hundred feet. I am now seeing small
orange blotches on the leaves of several closer trees and was informed that
this is due to the cedar. My question is whether the cedar must go for the apples'
sake, or whether pruning it back would help. And what's the cure for the
blotches? Thanks -- -- |
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