Victoria Conlan wrote in news:b7jihtFbq6eU2
@mid.individual.net:

Jake wrote:
On a different topic, Baz, the Victoria plum put on lots of healthy
growth but no blossom and hence no plums. I netted it last year after
reading on the group that birds would go for the buds. Have you had
better luck?

Jake - sounds like ours. And the leaves are scrunchy and deformed. :-(
(It's only a couple of years old, it's never had a good crop so far)


Has it got greenfly?

Baz

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:31:26 GMT, Baz wrote:

Victoria Conlan wrote in news:b7jihtFbq6eU2
:

Jake wrote:
On a different topic, Baz, the Victoria plum put on lots of healthy
growth but no blossom and hence no plums. I netted it last year after
reading on the group that birds would go for the buds. Have you had
better luck?

Back to Raspberries, someone mentioned smooth stems or spiny stems. I
went out to inspect my pot-grown Autumn ones; they have spiny stems.
I've just watched this morning's Beechgrove programme where they were
reporting on raspberries in polytunnels; summer fruiting? They said
that all new varieties are bred with no spines!

Pam in Bristol

On 25/08/2013 16:54, Pam Moore wrote:
On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:31:26 GMT, Baz wrote:

Victoria Conlan wrote in news:b7jihtFbq6eU2
@mid.individual.net:

Jake wrote:
On a different topic, Baz, the Victoria plum put on lots of healthy
growth but no blossom and hence no plums. I netted it last year after
reading on the group that birds would go for the buds. Have you had
better luck?

Back to Raspberries, someone mentioned smooth stems or spiny stems. I
went out to inspect my pot-grown Autumn ones; they have spiny stems.
I've just watched this morning's Beechgrove programme where they were
reporting on raspberries in polytunnels; summer fruiting? They said
that all new varieties are bred with no spines!

Pam in Bristol

That may be true of Summer fruiting, but I don't think it is of Autumn
fruiting.

Baz wrote:
Jake - sounds like ours. And the leaves are scrunchy and deformed. :-(
(It's only a couple of years old, it's never had a good crop so far)
Has it got greenfly?

Nick says it's got something, but they're not greenfly. Apparently it's a
pear disease. Don't ask me how that works. He says the leaves go all red
and blistered, and there's some kind of insect causing it.

On 25/08/2013 20:33, Victoria Conlan wrote:
Baz wrote:
Jake - sounds like ours. And the leaves are scrunchy and deformed. :-(
(It's only a couple of years old, it's never had a good crop so far)
Has it got greenfly?

Nick says it's got something, but they're not greenfly. Apparently it's a
pear disease. Don't ask me how that works. He says the leaves go all red
and blistered, and there's some kind of insect causing it.

Could it be pear leaf blister mite?
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/...e.aspx?PID=661

David Hill wrote:
Nick says it's got something, but they're not greenfly. Apparently it's a
pear disease. Don't ask me how that works. He says the leaves go all red
and blistered, and there's some kind of insect causing it.

Could it be pear leaf blister mite?
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/...e.aspx?PID=661

That may be what Nick thinks it is, but it doesn't look like it is
something carried on plum trees. *shrug*

David Hill wrote:
Could it be pear leaf blister mite?
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/...e.aspx?PID=661

Probably more likely to be
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/...e.aspx?pid=681

Not into multi-tasking Jake?





"Jake" wrote in message ...

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:49:04 +0100, Jake
wrote:


Ota be honest. Baz. I've had greenfly and the like in the past but
never an inkling on the raspberries.

Please ignore last post. Mix of typos and reading two threads at once
and getting confused.

--
Cheers, Jake
=======================================
URGling from the east end of Swansea Bay in between
yanking up ever-appearing clumps of Himalayan balsam.

Jake wrote:
Please ignore last post. Mix of typos and reading two threads at once
and getting confused.


It was fair enough, given the subject line. ;-)