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Mold on cherry fruit
We have a mature sweet cherry tree (Stella, sold as self-pollinating)
that has produced very well for quite a few years. This year we had a warm and very wet spring. We're in zone 5/6, very near lake Erie which moderates the weather. The tree set its usual abundant crop but just as they started to turn, a mold started developing on the fruits, and the whole crop shriveled up. My concern is what I should to to protect the tree now that this has happened. The leaves seem healthy, and I don't find an abnormal amount of insects. Since it is a full sized tree, and my climbing days are over, I have not kept it as pruned as I do my dwarf tree, so I think my fall project will be to do a drastic pruning and try to get more breeze into the tree for next year. Is there anything else I can do for it? |
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Mold on cherry fruit
In , on 06/17/04
at 04:13 PM, William Brown said: We have a mature sweet cherry tree (Stella, sold as self-pollinating) that has produced very well for quite a few years. This year we had a warm and very wet spring. We're in zone 5/6, very near lake Erie which moderates the weather. The tree set its usual abundant crop but just as they started to turn, a mold started developing on the fruits, and the whole crop shriveled up. My concern is what I should to to protect the tree now that this has happened. The leaves seem healthy, and I don't find an abnormal amount of insects. Since it is a full sized tree, and my climbing days are over, I have not kept it as pruned as I do my dwarf tree, so I think my fall project will be to do a drastic pruning and try to get more breeze into the tree for next year. Is there anything else I can do for it? Sounds like brown rot. Do a web search, and you'll find sites telling you how to deal with it (what and when to spray.) Good luck. Alan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Please use address alanh77[at]comccast.net to reply via e-mail. ** Posted using registered MR/2 ICE Newsreader #564 and eComStation 1.1 BBS - The Nerve Center Telnet FidoNet 261/1000 tncbbs.no-ip.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Mold on cherry fruit
As far as the climbing thing, get yourself an extension pruner. You can cut
branches as high as 12-15 foot reach with one of those, and if it has a saw on the end, you can do some pretty big branches. Here is a Tree Fruit Pest Problem Solver http://paipm.cas.psu.edu/ProblemSolv...tProblSolv.htm On this one, scroll down to cherry and this should help you keep track of future problems, too http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pp/ext.../disindx.shtml I hope they help. http://www.squarefootslo.com is my site on Square Foot Gardening, but you can find some general gardening and plant info there. In , on 06/17/04 at 04:13 PM, William Brown said: We have a mature sweet cherry tree (Stella, sold as self-pollinating) that has produced very well for quite a few years. This year we had a warm and very wet spring. We're in zone 5/6, very near lake Erie which moderates the weather. The tree set its usual abundant crop but just as they started to turn, a mold started developing on the fruits, and the whole crop shriveled up. My concern is what I should to to protect the tree now that this has happened. The leaves seem healthy, and I don't find an abnormal amount of insects. Since it is a full sized tree, and my climbing days are over, I have not kept it as pruned as I do my dwarf tree, so I think my fall project will be to do a drastic pruning and try to get more breeze into the tree for next year. Is there anything else I can do for it? Sounds like brown rot. Do a web search, and you'll find sites telling you how to deal with it (what and when to spray.) Good luck. Alan GC Certified Square Foot Gardening Instructor http://www.squarefootslo.com Learn to be a freelance web designer http://www.howtofreelance.com |
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Thanks for the information. The pictures at the web sites confirm
that it is brown rot. As for climbing, this is a very large fruit tree, easily 25 or 30 feet tall, so I'm going to try and remove all the residue of the infection using a ladder. |
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