I have a Juliet cherry bush. I am new here. Please share with me what to do to make sure there are no worms. I can’t eat them with worms and hate to see all that fruit wasted. Thank you for your help!
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The key to fighting the pest is to first understand what your pest is. My guess is the western fruit fly is the culprit Western Cherry Fruit Fly | WSU Tree Fruit | Washington State University
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Thank you for the link. I am going to try my best not to get worms. I am transplanting my cherry to a sunnier area and I do live in the West. I think I will also try the netting.
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You might be able to lure them to their death by putting sticky false fruit in the bush Amazon.com
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Hi Kristine,
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t see your location, other than zone 6.
That could be many places in the U.S.
The only reason that’s important is that it matters with pests.
Zone 6 in the western U.S is vastly different than zone 6 in KS, MI, CT.
If you think about it, it’s a distance of over 2000 miles. Lots of different challenges over that land mass.
Edit, I do see you clarified living in the west in your second post. You might mention which state you live in. That will potentially get you better council.
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I live in Salt lake city Utah. Thank you for your help. I transplanted my Juliet Cherry today. I hope to try a few different things to stop the worms. I like to make cherry jam, it is so good!
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Same bush, different problem.
I had some mild cherry leaf spot, I sprayed with Regalia/Immunox on 5/14 and again 5/25. It was looking good but today I noticed this.
A few of those leaves on the ground were cherry leaf spot, but most were normal looking leaves a couple of days ago. Currently nearly 100% of the leaves on the bush look normal, but when I shake the bush, green leaves fall.
Probably approaching 50% defoliation.
Did the spray, disease or something else cause this. A Carmine 30’ away showed similar symptoms before spraying and now seems fine. All the other bush cherries that I have are smaller/younger, have not shown any cherry leaf spot. They were sprayed prophylactically and also appear normal.
After losing large crops to worms a couple years, I now spray with Spinosad weekly or after heavy rains, starting at petal fall. Heartbreaking to find them full of worms! They start ripening around July 4th around here.
With mine, they will drop a ton of adjacent fine looking leaves when they get leaf spot until it’s well under control. There might be 1 tiny tiny brown spot on the leaf and it will drop.
My cutie pie lost about half it leaves last year from leaf spot. Same with CJ and Juliet. We had like 7 days of rain. I preemptively sprayed this year I spring and 2 weeks ago when we had 4 days of rain.
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