| Thanks. We had an extraordinarily cool wet spring, so I might gamble on the same cultivar (Puget Gold). It had the virtue of setting fruit in New England, which I gather most apricots don't. What would you spray with, and when, to protect against gummosis? Ginda On Sep 2, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Lon J. Rombough wrote: If you peeled the bark off near that gummy spot, you'd likely find the cambium dead all the way around the trunk. That kind of gummosis is common in the NW. It grows during the cool, wet weather of spring, then dries up in the summer. If can girdle limbs and trunks 3 inches or so in diameter or less, and makes oozing cankers on larger diameter wood of susceptible trees. The old treatment was to cut out the canker and paint the wound. |
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