Is this cedar apple rust, frogeye spot, or something else?
edit…in looking at a bunch of pics online, it would seem to me to be frogeye spot (black rot). Maybe a bit of scab on the far right leaf’s right margin. Anybody want to point me in a different direction?
I oftentimes find myself asking that question. I have spots like yours. Given what I have unearthed playing the picture matching game on the net, I am leaning toward frogeye.
The problem with digging around on the web is that one can come up with a lot of picture assigned to different things that look like our spots. COuld I confidently say that what I see is frogeye vs alternaria leaf blotch? Not likely.
For me the circles that tend to appear in ~ May are more red orange than the brown spots I have now on some of my trees. I chalk the orange ones in May ones up to CAR and I tell myself the brown ones are frogeye.
Thank you for the response and links. The first linked page I was familiar with, but not the second. I was convinced it was frogeye spot until I looked at the pics of Alternaria leaf blotch on that second page. Now, I’m unsure.
I hit my trees with Captan/Imidan about a month ago, and they’ll get their second shot tomorrow. I like to keep my herbicide/insecticide sprays to 3, plus dormant oil and copper. Maybe I need to increase my cover sprays…
Do you use any Neem oil on your trees? Or just the Captan/Imidan and dormant oil and copper?
I cannot use copper because my orchard is right next to my pond. I had to spray one of my peach trees one year because of peach leaf curl, but only that one area on the tree and I did it once in the fall and once in the spring. I used to use a Captan/Imidan product years ago but I cannot find it any longer.