What disease are killing my Sweet Cherries?

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Stephen,
Where the zone 5 are you in New England, VT, NH, ME or MA?

You pick the pickier fruit to grow, plums and cherries. It will be a learning curve. For instanve, Bing cracks too much for rainy NE and Rainier is not hardy enough for.zone 5.

You grow them in pots, that can be a good thing (can be protected against rain) or a bad thing (some cherry rootstocks may be too big to be in a pot) and many more.

Someone else may be able to help you with books. I just look up the Guide category of this forum to learn about spraying.

For low impact by Scott Smith

Low-Impact Spray Schedule (2019 Edition)

That settles it, thanks. Will bag again at nickel size and wait to hear how your new sprays do. Trying to stay organic but each year bagging gets more tedious and extensive as trees grow. Hoping Surround cuts down on last year’s 80% apple drop from PC. Somehow going to squeeze in Surround between rains but looks futile over next week. Another tactic I’ve read about: bag twice- first bag whole clusters before PC start then once nickel size go thru again and bag just one apple. What fun.

And for full impact by Alan

Spray Schedule- Synthetic Materials

I couldn’t read the label. Spectracide makes a combo myclobutanil and insecticide spray, but the one I refer to is this. https://www.amazon.com/Spectracide-Multi-Purpose-Fungicide-16-Ounce-Concentrate/dp/B0035H0RA8