In article ,
sherwin dubren wrote:

Pat Kiewicz wrote:
l bailes said:


i have problem with my plum tree ,there is what looks like a silicon gel
type substance oozing from the plums has anybody got any idea what it is
and is it harmfull

Some pest has been laying eggs on you plums. The wounds they made
are 'bleeding.'

Here in North America, I might suspect Plum curculio beetles (there
would be a small cut at the base of each bit of ooze) or another
weevil called the plum gouger. The eggs are laid under the skin of
the fruit, and the larvae burrow in to feed on the stone. (I don't
know if either of these pests has been exported.)

Oriental fruit moth is another possible culprit.

If it is Plum Curculio, the only thing I know that will knock it
out is Imidan.

Sherwin

If, if, if, if Sherwin wouldn't opine on the solution to a problem,
before he knows what it is (even then, it seems that the only answer he
has is to spay).

Are you sure the problem isn't Bacterial canker (Pseudomonas syringae
pv. morsprunorum and P. syringae pv. syringe) ?
http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile...ial_canker.asp

Failing that, is there no botanist at a secondary school or university,
agricultural advisor, or nuseryman, to whom you could show your problem,
or perhaps ring up on the phone?

Could you post a picture of the problem?

And so that we understand each other, the "silicon like substance" is
exuding from the fruit or the tree?
--

- Billy

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