Best All In One Fruit Tree Spray?

General Fruit Growing
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Anyone have a favorite that really works - especially on peaches - but apples, too. Or are separate products for insecticides and fungicides really that much better

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We grow peaches and Triazicide and captan mix has worked well for us.

The main issue with spray is the timing. A 1 inch rain resets the clock. many say the first few spray are the most critical.

our spray schedule;

Petal drop, shuck, and every 10 to 14 days. We stop 1 month before harvest

Keep track of your spray dates, between sprays measure rain fall with a rain gage.

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If you just have a few trees, then Liqui-Cop is a good choice for winter dormant spray. Otherwise, Kocide plus a surfactant is more cost effective.

For insecticide, choices vary dependent on region and pests.

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Best all in one that works for just about everything? Imidan.

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BONIDE FRUIT TREE & PLANT GUARD

Effective against brown rot, and many types of plant insects.

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I was going to post the same product item to use. I’ve used this one for years and it always does a nice job for me on all my fruit.

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I see the label lists this as effective against plum curculio. Has that been your experience? I would be pretty interested in it for that reason. Do you usually make your first application between green tip and bloom? Do you find that you need multiple applications afterward? I see the label says to limit to four applications per year for apples.

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There was an old formulation of this. The active ingredients were malathion, carbaryl, and captan. It has been replaced by Captain Jack’s whose active ingredient is neem oil.

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No, these were two different products, though the concept is similar. I had both of them at the same time. The one I recommended is much better.

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Where do you buy it?

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I do not think this new formula would be very good to use for any long term effect, not more than a day. I used the older version and it worked. This new formula is basically all neem oil.

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The Bonide Fruit Tree and Plant Guard is basically a watered down cheaper version of the ultra expensive Pristine (with an extra for insect). Same active ingredients, just less of them. I’ll give it a try. It’s affordable and I don’t need to get 10 people to share the cost.

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The new formulation’s active ingredients are Lambda-cyhalothrin, Pyraclostrobin, and Boscalid — whatever those are.