Sally,
The tree's age is not a factor here since it is relatively young. First step
would
be to treat the tree for this malady. It's obviously not going to recover on
it's own.
A simple spraying may do the job.

Sherwin D.

Sally wrote:

The tree's probably about 5 or 6 years old. It hasn't borne fruit in the
last few years because of the curl, and no, never treated it.

Sally

"sherwindu" wrote in message
...
Sally,
Have you sprayed with any fungicide, as suggested? You don't mention
the age
of
the tree. Is it continuing to bear fruit?

Sherwin D.

Sally wrote:

We have a tree that's had this about 3 seasons now. I don't think
there's a
healthy leaf on this thing now and are considering taking it down.

Is it worth trying to save it by treating for it now? Or should we just
go
ahead and chop it down?

Sally

"Sodbuster7!" wrote in message
...
What you are describing is Peach Leaf Curl. The pictures displayed in
some of the postings are extreme cases, and likely as not yours will
not be this pronounced. Some peach varieties are less susceptible to
the disease than others.

Regardless, to what commercial chemicals manufactures advertise as a
cure. I have found, over the years, dealing with this disease, there
is only one satisfactory cure I have found. It is Copper, and must be
applied during dormancy. I use Ortho brand, and the name of it is
"Copper". I have used other fungicides but with only limited success.

I apply it twice a year, once after leaf fall, and again just before
bud swell.

If there is only a few leaves that are infected, harvest(pick) them
and get them away from the tree. Sometimes you can limit the spread
until dormit spraying time.

Have a good day-SodB!
On 28 May 2006 10:34:04 -0700, wrote:

Each year the leaves of my dwarf peach tree develope red blisters.
I took a leaf to a local garden shop and they didn't know how it was
happening. I can send a picture if needed.

Lacustral wrote:

is there somebody I can contact in Nafex to ask about grafting onto black
cherries? I found two references online, which have more or less
contradictory info:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache...5&ie=UTF-8


I think it is very clear from the reply of Charles Paradise that he tried sweet cherry
grafting onto black cherry and the grafts all failed after 12 months. I see nothing in
support of this type of graft. Even the sour cherry failure is an indicator that this
wild black cherry may be too genetically removed from either sweet or sour cherry
to be an effective mate for their grafts. If you want to pursue this further, I can put
a message out on the Nafex forum for you asking for another opinion.

Sherwin D.


says that various different cherry grafts were tried on wild black cherry
and they didn't work. They don't seem to have tried a sweet cherry graft,
though, but sour cherries.

http://delta.ulib.org/ulib/data/moa/...b00/9/data.txt

seems to indicate you can use wild black cherries as the rootstock and it
will make the tree grow tall ...

Laura

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As far as the most likely suspect, I'd say it's peach leaf curl, a fungal
disease. Check out the pictures here and see how they compare to your
leaves: http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/3000/3006.html.

Let me know if this is or is not the problem.

Suzy O, zone 5, Wisconsin


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Each year the leaves of my dwarf peach tree develope red blisters.
I took a leaf to a local garden shop and they didn't know how it was
happening. I can send a picture if needed.