What’s this hairy bump on the orchardist’s back?
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no. w.p.b.r is more orange with sploctches under the leaves. what you got looks like some kind of insect egg casing.
This detail
tells me - fungus Puccinia (caricina?)
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Thanks so much! Do you have any recommendations for treatment?
Pepper plant I have indoors. A litchi tomato nearby is showing the same thing. I have had issues with aphids of and on with these plants for a while but now they’re showing something new.
Thoughts on what’s causing the leaf curl?
Stick worm: another interesting common name for inchworm, looper, geometer; a moth caterpillar generally a pest.
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Did you have a cold and wet spring?
I haven’t had problems with rust on my currants and gooseberries (though I have on raspberries and pears), but the control should be the same or similar as for other types of rust. Good cultural practices are always recommended: prevention and sanitation, ensuring good air circulation (by spacing plants properly and pruning), avoiding wetting the leaves and generally controlling moisture, and removing infected parts, removing fallen leaves. Also, if it were possible to identify the primary host (possibly Carex - sedges?), removing it would help. As for fungicide use, we previously used difenoconazole (for raspberry rust), and I think sulfur also. You should treat in early spring, preventatively, or at the first sign of symptoms. Check what’s available and approved in your country; I am from another country.
Our spring was unusually warm for the most part with some characteristic cold (zone 4) and it was also quite wet. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I will look into whats available near me for treatment.
I know they’re all related, but my family has always called the brown ones stick worms and the green ones inch worms.
I see very similar black dots on my citrus in the spring and seems to turn into a leaf miner if I don’t remove. Never able to remove all or even most, and I don’t spray much of anything. Sometimes neem, some soap, and foliage fertilizer mixture. Trees handle well what leaf damage still results. I’d also like to know exactly what I’m dealing with.
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Are all varieties of carex are hosts of white pine blister rust? That’s doesn’t make much sense since they would naturally grow near those trees.
I wasn’t talking about white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola), but about Puccinia rust - maybe P. caricina (or Puccinia ribis-pendulae), maybe another Puccinia (there are several on Ribes) - it seems thal all of them have sedges as a primary host (different species of Carex, for example - Carex pendula is a host for Puccinia ribis-pendulae). Primary host of Cronartium ribicola is - white pines, not sedges.
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Yes I definitely see leaf miners here and at my friends that gave me this Pomelo. But I’ve never treated or sprayed anything to combat them. I did clean those black things off before up potting and kept the little tree in quarantine for a while. I also removed as much soil from the top. I eventually put in a 24” box. Now something is eating the leaves which is strange because it’s right by a Mandarin tree that is fine from being eaten.
Looks like some leaf miners and I have no clue what would eat the leaves like that but besides that the tree appears somewhat healthy.
Oh sorry, I was looking at another post and mixed up what you were referencing.
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Wooly Apple Aphid root infestation on M111. Which is reported to be highly WAA resistant. The 6 of them I dug up this year were all like this…
That’s probably Grapholita funebrana - plum fruit moth. Open a fruit, see if there’s a rosy larva inside.
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Is this peach leaf curl? I just planted this and one other peach (which is showing no symptoms) in the ground last fall. Didn’t spray. No fruit trees for miles. Zone 5b NH. Been a very wet rainy summer.
Whatever it is - is there anything I can do now? My first peaches…
cc @mamuang who will probably tell me “oi, peaches…”
