To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Brown rot
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:22:36 -0500
Mind you, this story comes from California where they can grow stone fruit
well, but I read that someone found that 3 tons to the acre of compost
controlled brown rot in peaches. I would suspect that spraying the trees
with compost tea would slow it down considerably. What we really need is a
commercial culture that either colonizes the fruit so brown rot can't take
hold, or actually attacks the fungus. Donna