Thanks. As grown in my soil/climate Hunge was a dud for taste… I’m now looking at Black Twig as possibility.
ive seen the rust occasionally but no fire blight.
“braveheart” is supposedly a good rust resistant serviceberry for the south
very good to know. I would need one that was close to immune for it to work as a no spray on my property though. I have several eastern red cedars on my property that are known carriers of rust. I see the galls each spring.
@lordkiwi Did Douglass Wormless live up to it’s billing as a no spray apple? I’ve got that one on my long term wish list.
Sorry, nothing to report. , not sure If I have a surviving graft.
Early this spring… i marked some wild serviceberry that were blooming in the edge of my field.
I checked them again later in May… and every fruit that was near ripe was covered in rust.
Serviceberry did not work out here (southern middle TN) as no spray. I yanked the new ones I had planted.
I dont need anything that is going to have problems like that.
TNHunter
Today I finally got a complete white powder coating on majority of my apples after spray of Surround WP for the fifth application. I had received a notice from https://www.usanpn.org/ that said my region can expect the apply fly maggot within 10 days. My notice came on 7/8/24. So hopefully I have enough to ward off whatever comes. About 50% of my apples were very resistant to be coated so I had to keep going back for second applications on my first two weeks of spraying, but today most were showing accumulation as I sprayed rather than running off. Normally I expect to see the fly around first week of July, so that’s why I started 5 weeks ago since it takes so much effort to coat some varieties. My peaches are no problem getting a coating with their fuzzy skin, but some apples are very resistant smooth skin.
It’s worth having Phenology give this notice as it takes some time to prepare the fruit.
Dennis
Kent, Wa