Today I see a big change in my little Toka plum tree…there are many branches that are partly affected by something. Many of the leaves and flowers look great but many, in areas–not scattered, look dead. It seems that the interior is more affected than the exterior ends of the branches. Assessments appreciated.
There are healthy leaves above this sick area.
It looks like brown rot blossom blight, which is also consistent with the season. Has it been wet?
Oh, it has rained here so much in the last couple weeks, we were practically back in flood season. Is there anything I can do–prune, spray, ?? at this time? Thanks for the comment!
I don’t have much help to offer. I’ve not heard of brown rot blossom blight being an issue here in Iowa though the potential conditions exists. I have seen the discussion of it here on the board. I think there are a few fungicides that can beat it, but like most you have to get it before the damage starts.
Can you change the name of your thread to Brown Rot Blossom Blight on Toka? Maybe that will catch other’s eye.
I think you nailed it. There are a few posts here and mucho on the interweb. Thanks!
Did you find out what your Toka has?
…as Levers101 said, seems to fit the bill. Kinda clumsy name that ya might think could refer to several things but it actually is a thing. I’m seeing various trees get various diseases and they tend to point to not being tidy when removing the little bits of the diseases seen the year before. So far, with this, and peach leaf curl on my Baby Crawford, removing affected plant parts from the area is a major part of the ‘treatment.’ I have done poorly in this regard. The Toka is continuing to leaf out like nothing happened but I have to take this situation seriously in the coming year.
Well… not that this will make you feel any better!!!.. My Toka that I displayed great pictures of about a week or so ago … has the same blight as yours… This is the first I’ve seen of this in my orchard so it was a big surprise how one day it was great looking and the next day it was a mess… LIVE and Learn!
Yah…same here. Now the tree is sprouting plenty of new leaves. I remembered after I posted that I got Opal scions from you and that is why I was getting close to the plum trees the other day…it was plum grafting day. I am going back out to graft my few plum/pluot scions today. I have new a Euro (Wilco) and American (forum member) ‘trees’ (the American units are not two feet tall), but even though the Euro is a large, healthy, bare root specimen it is not out of dormancy yet. So, I still just have my Toka, Flav Supreme, and Satsuma, as in: diseased, robust, and very small. Good news for you is that your tree will also probably ‘get over it’…for now.
How’s it do this year? Mine the same, need to spray but not sure with what.
Captan should help.bb
I had Crimson Passion exhibit the same symptoms this spring. I pruned off the branch, there didn’t seem to be any other issues with it.
CP also seemed to be having shoot tips dying a little over a week ago. I should have taken that as a warning…
Scott
10 days ago (or so) I might have said everything is hunky-dory but now I see that the tree has been hit pretty hard again this year. I did a very poor job this year of caring for my troubled trees…got some PLC on peaches, too.
I’m in the same boat.
I have similar things going on my apricot tree and some on peach trees. I sprayed copper early spring and immunox later
A number of buds on my grafts looked like that until I sprayed. I had to leave them unsheltered in a bad location for a few weeks in early Spring. My Nanaimo graft got PLC right out the gate, and almost didn’t make it.
Yah, speaking of grafts, I have a Laroda plum graft on my Flavor Supreme pluot and it’s the only branch with problems…I think it’s a goner. It is strange to see different grafts on one tree (with apples fer instance) that have different issues, or none at all.
BobC I forgot to look at the Opal graft, but the good news is that it didn’t draw my attention, so it’s probably good. I’ll look later.
