Just want to report that bagging single fruit in organza bags not working. Moth bites right through it. The only way to use it I see as using large bugs to cover a branch. Then leaves will not let the fabric to lay on the fruit, at least not on each fruit…
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The ultimate goal is not letting the bags touch the fruit. I use large sleeves to cover the whole branches, when a fruit or two touch the bags, they are damaged.
Also, with bagging a whole branch, be sure there is no opening at all. Plum Curculio can crawl through a small hole/opening to get to all fruit in the bags in one visit!!!.
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Do bags speed up ripening at all?
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Just my opinion but I think they do ripen faster in a ziploc bag.
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I’m on my 2nd season of organza bags for grapes. They are on mid/end June to mid/late September so 3 months and last years bags still look like new.
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Here are a few pics of just a few PF-5’s I’ve harvested so far.
So far every one I have given out has came back with GREAT reviews. My only regret is using a sticker with Captan. If I would have known my fruit would be 100% clean looking. Grocery store looks with that backyard “fresh off the tree” taste. Oh well, there is always next year.
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What method did you use to bag those? plastic?
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Clemson bags. Taking all the advice that Juan Carlos Melgar offered to me. After shipping it comes out to $.11 per bag which is nothing after you factor in the sprays I don’t have to do.
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Reading through this thread I see lots of people trying bagging but has anyone successfully bagged? If successful can you describe what you did to be successful? Thanks - Spud
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Last year,I tried nylon footies for the first time on a Nectarine tree,to protect against stinkbugs,earwigs and ants.
The previous two consecutive years,the fruit was in bad shape,by harvest time.The bagging really helped and even one that had fallen to the ground,for an uncertain amount of time,was pristine. Brady
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Do you have problems with plum curculio damage? That is my main purpose for bagging. Thanks!
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To my knowledge,that insect,thankfully,is not in this area. Brady
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Plastic ziplocks really work to exclude the PCs on apples
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My issue is more bird pecking and squirrel theft…ziplocs work on the birdies? For disease brown rot is my biggest issue.
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Take a look at my results. If I WOULD HAVE sprayed right after petal fall I would have avoided probably ALL my PC hits. That being said even the fruit that were hit had nothing wrong with them on the inside. You could see the crescent shape on the outside and at worst I had a dot about the size of a small dot from a pencil on the inside. Either eat it or pick it out. If you didn’t know it was from PC you would just think it was a blemish. Also I used Captan with a sticker… Again, if I wouldn’t have done that I would have probably had blemish free fruit as the spray burned some of the fruit. Nothing major.
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When I sprayed Captan it burned my plums.
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Ok, here is something for you all. I’m wondering how you guys protect from birds. They have found that the little white bags contain a treat inside and have proceeded to tear open the ones that are ripe or close to it and eating what hey find inside.
In hopes it would work I purchased a owl that moves its wings in the breeze and a fake cat that moves its head and tail in the breeze also. Did I waste my money? What have you guys tried that has worked? I come home today to find 4 Saturn bags open with pits laying below. As of 2 days ago these were close to being perfect. And FYI, this isn’t the first time this year either.
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Netting
