tg, varieties vary widely in their habits, and one of those habits is
shedding aborted bloom/small apples -
Gala and Golden Russet and Spitzenberg, for examples, tend to hold on to
blossoms and small incipient fruit into the next season -
and this has cultural implications - those small undeveloped fruit hang
there and serve as innoculum source for fruit rots -
I don't think there is any disease issue with scionwood -
regards, D Doud
----- Original Message -----
From: "tanis grif" <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:28 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] apple blossom disease?
dead dried
Funny what we notice & when we notice it....
I just found, on some apple trees I've been looking at all winter, some
flowers which never fell off since spring. They look just like a blossomafter
petal-fall, but dry & brown.scionwood
Most interesting, I notice this on 2 closely related cultivars, growing
side-by-side, one tree has it but not the other.
Any ideas on what this is? If a disease, should I NOT be distributing
from my plantings until I get rid of this disease?
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