Only on these trees among 60 different varieties.
Hmmm.
Mike
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That looks like scab to me. Varieties vary a lot in how susceptible they are to it.
I didn’t get any for 10+ years then a few sensitive varieties got it and now more varieties have it. Spray in the spring to get rid of it.
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All my trees got dormant fall copper, oil, and Lime Sulfur.
Same treatment dormant early spring.
Then Myclo and captan pre and post bloom. Like I said everything else is spotless so I can’t complaint too much.
This has been a wet spring and early summer. My trees are essentially spotless. I have to think that being espaliers has something to do with this in that air circulation and sun exposure leave no shaded areas to act as fungal or bacterial nurseries.
Mike
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Suncrisp for me is the weirdest apple I try to grow. People talk about Honeycrisp be I g an ugly tree but for me Suncrisp is worse. Mine hadn’t produced fruit yet but it attracts tons of aphids, gets scab easily, has ugly curly leaves, and isn’t very vigorous. I hope its as good as advertised because of not its getting the axe.
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Lol…my hc was so ugly…my apple leaves all look rough this year …all that April may rain did not help.
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What rootstock do you have Suncrisp on? I have it on G.890 and it is fairly vigorous in its 3rd season. Not as vigorous as the Williams’ Pride on G.890 that I got for my dad in the same order, though. That WP is a monster!
But I agree Suncrisp is ugly. Mine has the curl thing and the also just doesn’t look as green as its neighbors. The latest flushes of growth are coming out yellow. This is its first year fruiting for me. It already has some russeting on the fruit. No scab though. It is one of my favorites, though, so worth it for me.
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My Suncrisp is on Bud9. And yes the leaves aren’t dark green like my other apples. Weird tree
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Is your WP fruiting? Mine overset like crazy and the apples are going to snap the branch without support.
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The Williams’ Pride bloomed but did not set any fruit for my dad. I suspect it isn’t getting good pollination yet since my parents live in the country and the nearest apple and crabapple trees are about 200 yards away. He planted a HC with it and a Hawkeye Delicious/G.969 I grafted last year, but they haven’t flowered yet.
I have a WP branch that I grafted as a chip bud last spring that grew like gangbusters. It, like yours, set heavily, and is now supported by an 8’ pipe. What’s another thing to mow around? ha!
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my lodi is like that. got a deal on it but anything that comes around it gets. fighting fireblight/ scab right now. may wind up chopping and getting a more disease resistant variety. too bad as its producing its 1st good crop of apples this year. couldn’t spray before bud break due to heavy rain all spring.
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