Alan, any thoughts on the slightly damaged fruit and if it needs to be thinned off? Given you are in the same area, I bet you’ve seen this before. The tree was sprayed with Avaunt and Actara, though the timing was probably a bit off. One of which is supposed to have kickback and I don’t see any worms/larvae. At first, I was thinking stinkbugs, but most of the pics I see from stinkbugs look much worse than this.
As soon as the skin is broken, my fruit rots quickly…I am assuming because it’s so humid here.
I’m beginning to think I won’t have a lot of opportunity to get truly fully ripe stone fruit.
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If the damage enters the flesh it often rots but skin can have some damage and not be a big problem. If you want me to try my best at identifying damage post a picture. Mostly on peaches right now the damage I’m seeing is from tarnished plant bugs, and the damage is called cat facing. Avaunt isn’t real good against bugs and I rely on Assail for that.
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Hi Alan. I posted a pic earlier today In this thread, a few posts up. It is the one with the 4 fruit being held in a latex glove. It’s in the 2nd half of the message you responded to. I don’t have any pictures of the Inside, but it seemed very shallow. I’ll probably be at that site again on Monday or Tuesday and can take a pic of the inside, if it helps. Also, let me know if you still don’t see it, and I can send it to you in a DM. Thanks!
Missed that. Yeah catfacing and probably TPB. I bet most of the fruit on the tree isn’t scarred like that, as is the usual case where I see it, including on my own property. TPB seems to hang out in white clover and broad leaf weeds in general. They tend to hop up on the trees when the clover is mowed, or so I’ve read. I get most of that kind of damage in orchards where the owner wants to conflate meadow with fruit orchard, especially when it’s essentially a mugwort meadow- I detest mugwort. . .
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Thanks Alan. I looked up Mugwort and recognized it as one of the weeds I battle with most. At the site with the pics, there is a strip of land in the neighbors yard behind their garage that they let go and fill with weeds, including Mugwort, maybe 20 feet away from this tree. .
So, what happens to such scarred fruits? Do they rot on you or is it just cosmetic?
Usually it is cosmetic as long as you use Indar.
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