Can anyone help me ID a peach tree problem? 1st year Contender has shoots dying, lesions at the base of leaves near the end of the shoot, and some shoots have wounds on the side that look like a scrape. I pruned off the damaged shoots and didn’t find any larvae.
Oriental fruit moth? Canker? Something else?
I’m in Massachusetts Zone 5/6. Thanks!
@AnnaBee I am guessing the lesser Peach Tree Borer. They invade the branch crotch of young trees. Being diligent with cover sprays in June should help.
Peach twig borer or OFM depending on where you live. Where I’m at, western Texas it’s the twig borer, from central TX east it might be either but often OFM.
Central MA, I say, OFM. Treatments are the same. Insecticide or Surround for deterance…
OFM in our area has up to 5 generations. I see new shoot flagging all the way to end of Sept.
As for catching larvae in the act. Depending on what stage you pinch off the flagged shoots. Sometimes, eggs have not hatched, sometimes, they are gone. Lucky times are when you catch them inside the shoots.
I bought some cluster tomatoes from local grocery store. When I cut them open, I found there are a lot of little tomatoes plants growing inside. Are they possible GMO tomatoes?
Knew there was a name for this but had to look it up: “Seeds of the fruit that have begun germinating is called Vivipary, Latin for Live Birth. It is the term for plants that begin growing while still inside or attached to the mother plant.” Not unusual for tomatoes and not related to genetic modifications.
I took a long walk yesterday and ate fruit from over a dozen wild mulberry trees. One was noticeably sweeter and more pleasant to eat and had better texture than the rest. I’m wondering how common it is to find very good wild mulberries. I have Kokuso, Oscar, and Rupp’s Romanian, and this was at least as good as any of those.
Good to know, thanks. Only one was a real spitter. The rest were tasty enough. This one just stuck out to me. I’ll probably end up grafting a stick onto one of my existing trees and seeing how it goes.
I bought some red delicious apple three months ago. I used to really like this apple… but this time the texture is very hard and very dense, kinda dry and with hint of bitter taste so I stop eating it. They stay in kitchen counter top all these past three months and did not rot. After I stop eating the red delicious, I bought pink lady instead which also is one of my favorite fresh eating apple . Same thing happened, hard and dry texture . Not pleasant taste. And it is sitting on the counter top for so many months and didn’t rot. This makes me wonder if these apples had gone through some kind of chemicals, radiation treatment?? Norman apple surely would start to rot. Anyone know what might be the causes, the hard texture, not rot?? At this moment, I decided let the apples to sit there just to see how long it takes for them to start to break down, grow mold or something.
I have a good sized Ozark Premier plum (6-7 feet) that I’ve had to tie up with 4 point stakes. Last nights storm blew it over again (ropes broke). Do i need to really cut this tree back to see it it will grow enough roots to support it? What advice? And if so can I cut it back now? It did not fruit this year due to late frost.
Its like the Jaws line “we need a bigger boat” … just get a more rugged staking setup. I have several degrees of sturdiness I use depending on how much weight it needs to bear. Unfortunately I sometimes don’t get it strong enough the first try, I need to upgrade it after it falls over like yours did.