I planted this Flavor King on Myro last Feb. ( in ground) and it hasn’t grown six inches in all that time so I dug it up to see what was going on and I found a CG tumor on it. After washing away the dirt , I pulled the mass off and potted it up . Later this summer I’ll see if it grew back, which I’m guessing it will.
That’s nasty- I’ve never seen one before, and I hope I never do. Good luck with it.
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I think by now the whole tree is infected with the bacteria. I had a Flavor Supreme tree like that and got rid of it completely. I planted another tree in the same spot and it got crown gall as well. The bacteria stays in soil for a long time. I was looking for a treatment and couldn’t find anything other than discarding the tree completely.
Later I heard from a nursery person that copper treatment helps (I am not mentioning the product name since you got different ones in US but anything you use for peach leaf curl should do) but was never able to try it since my tree was already gone. He said to “water” the plant with that solution or alternatively dip the roots in it if the plant is small.
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The are treatments for crown gall that involve dipping the plants roots in a slurry of bacteria that compete with the CG bacteria. It’s best done by the nursery as the trees are dug and again later before planting. That’s my understanding anyway. Not sure it really helps and probably not for long.
I forget the names now but they used to advertise all the time in Good Fruit Grower.
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Yes it does. We need to spend less time together…lol
Yikes, should I prune that little root off? Or is it too late? 
There’s a product called Gallex that can be used to treat existing galls. The information is on this site www.agbiochem.com . There’s also the dipping product that Fruitnut referred to on this site. Last week I called them and left a message and a couple of days later a fella named Wayne McBride returned my call, we spoke for quite so time (real nice man) , he told me that the bacteria lives in the soil and when you plant a tree that has damage to the roots/rootstock or they have been trimmed that’s where the bacteria gets in and causes the galls.
Unfortunately their not registered to sell in Louisiana so I wasn’t able to buy any for my trees that have crown gall.
P.S. He also grows stone fruit for himself.
My Candy Heart Pluerry grew very little last year. This year, it has grown great. But then I see this today…
Aw hell, that’s not good.
Well looks like Flavor King is toast! 
Should I cut it down now. There’s a healthy Flavor Supreme on Citation 2 feet away.
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If you’re sure you want to cut it down, the sooner the better.
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