Shiva said:

My Peach tree, of about 8 years old, 7 feet tall, variety unknown, has
suddenly started bleeding sap from hundreds of tiny spots all over. Thne
leaves have all but dried up and fallen off, the ends of the twigs are
dead and dry too. This happened within days.
The tree is about 50' away from two others, and about 20 feet from
another peach tree, none of the others have the same problem.

I don't know if I can add pic here, which I took yesterday, so I put
them on a mini-page whrich you can visit by going to
http://www.westside.ca/peaches

Your tree is history. Destroy it immediately. Inspect the other trees for any
sign of peach tree borers. You will need to consider a spray program to
protect them. Sometimes the trunks of the trees are painted white to protect
the bark from winter injury and discourage borers from laying their eggs (they
prefer to lay eggs at cracks in the bark).

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/bugrevi...treeborer.html

There are new approaches to control peach tree borers (using pheromones
to disrupt their mating) but I don't know how practical or available they would
be for the typical gardener.
--
Pat in Plymouth MI

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

I took some Sevin powder and made a paste out of it with water, (use rubber
surgical type gloves) and smeared it all over the trunk of my plumb, peach,
and cherry trees. I haven't noticed any borer problems since doing it.

"Pat Kiewicz" wrote in message
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Shiva said:

My Peach tree, of about 8 years old, 7 feet tall, variety unknown, has
suddenly started bleeding sap from hundreds of tiny spots all over. Thne
leaves have all but dried up and fallen off, the ends of the twigs are
dead and dry too. This happened within days.
The tree is about 50' away from two others, and about 20 feet from
another peach tree, none of the others have the same problem.

I don't know if I can add pic here, which I took yesterday, so I put
them on a mini-page whrich you can visit by going to
http://www.westside.ca/peaches

Your tree is history. Destroy it immediately. Inspect the other trees
for any
sign of peach tree borers. You will need to consider a spray program to
protect them. Sometimes the trunks of the trees are painted white to
protect
the bark from winter injury and discourage borers from laying their eggs
(they
prefer to lay eggs at cracks in the bark).

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/bugrevi...treeborer.html

There are new approaches to control peach tree borers (using pheromones
to disrupt their mating) but I don't know how practical or available they
would
be for the typical gardener.
--
Pat in Plymouth MI

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

I've heard of people putting Sevin dust into regular white latex paint and
painting that on the tree trunks too. Sounds like a good plan!

Joe wrote:

I took some Sevin powder and made a paste out of it with water, (use rubber
surgical type gloves) and smeared it all over the trunk of my plumb, peach,
and cherry trees. I haven't noticed any borer problems since doing it.

"Pat Kiewicz" wrote in message
...
Shiva said:

My Peach tree, of about 8 years old, 7 feet tall, variety unknown, has
suddenly started bleeding sap from hundreds of tiny spots all over. Thne
leaves have all but dried up and fallen off, the ends of the twigs are
dead and dry too. This happened within days.
The tree is about 50' away from two others, and about 20 feet from
another peach tree, none of the others have the same problem.

I don't know if I can add pic here, which I took yesterday, so I put
them on a mini-page whrich you can visit by going to
http://www.westside.ca/peaches

Your tree is history. Destroy it immediately. Inspect the other trees
for any
sign of peach tree borers. You will need to consider a spray program to
protect them. Sometimes the trunks of the trees are painted white to
protect
the bark from winter injury and discourage borers from laying their eggs
(they
prefer to lay eggs at cracks in the bark).

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/bugrevi...treeborer.html

There are new approaches to control peach tree borers (using pheromones
to disrupt their mating) but I don't know how practical or available they
would
be for the typical gardener.
--
Pat in Plymouth MI

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

Shiva writes:
My Peach tree, of about 8 years old, 7 feet tall, variety unknown, has
suddenly started bleeding sap from hundreds of tiny spots all over. Thne
leaves have all but dried up and fallen off, the ends of the twigs are
dead and dry too. This happened within days.

Sounds like the end of it.

But try asking on sci.agriculture if you get no responses here. There
may even be a more specialist group than that.
--
John Savage (news reply email invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup)

Shiva wrote:

Sorry for the cross-post but this is urgent.

My Peach tree, of about 8 years old, 7 feet tall, variety unknown, has
suddenly started bleeding sap from hundreds of tiny spots all over. Thne
leaves have all but dried up and fallen off, the ends of the twigs are
dead and dry too. This happened within days.

Is this sap a light brown transparent jelly like stuff? If so its
peach borers. We had a peach tree years ago and were able to
contain the problem fairly well with stuff specifically for them,
but it was a PITA to do. Had to mix it, scrape off the jelly and
apply to each place affected on the tree, then pour around the
roots. It did work though and the tree was saved - until we put in
an in-ground pool 25 years ago that is. Pool is now an 18x36 garden
and I sure wish I had my peach tree back.