Thanks, Levers. I have already sprayed Kocide in late fall. I could wait to spray it again around bud break.
So this time, I may just spray Surround. That’s easy since I don’t need to put on my hazmat gears. If it rains tomorrow as they say, I may have to wait to Sun.
Many peach growers in Southern Illinois use 50-50 exterior white Latex/water mixed with Lorisban on their peach trunks for borers and the paint for sun scald. I wonder if it also delays bloom a little? I did this last year for peaches and plums.
I had a zillion peach tree borer flies in traps. The U of I etymologist recommends removing borer flies from the traps with a tweezers every so often, which I didn’t do last year. My traps were black. I’ll remember my tweezers this year.
You can also delay bloom to some extent by erecting some kind of temporary shade for the tree in late winter/early spring. Obviously just not very practical on a large scale.