A response like the one below by Tim is the reason I subscribe to
this list. An entire course in Fireblight risk in a 5 minute read. Thanks.
At 06:00 PM 7/3/2007, you wrote:
Dear Folks,
There are many aspects of this three-weekly-sprays-yearly approach
to blight management to address, but h
Hello from the "frozen North" to Dan and others...
Call it global warming or whatever you want, but since I got my job
in 1998, Fire-blight went from a non issue to a nearly yearly event.
(Some even say that since I got my job, there's more scab and more
fire-blight. but that's a different
George,
In 2006 only 1 positive PPV tree was found (1 plum tree). Every susceptible
tree within 5 miles of the positive that the inspectors could find was
tested in 2006, all negative. All trees in this same zone will be tested
again in 2007, 2008, 2009 and must test negative in order to lift the
I'd like to add my two cents to Tim Smith's excellent email of Jul 3.
First, the FB models, MaryBlyt and Cougar Blight, can appear to be
complicated, particularly MaryBlyt. To use Maryblyt correctly,
temperature data has to be fed in for every day from green tip on
through bloom. However, C
Bill:
It's not on apples but at least it's tree fruit.
What's the latest on Plum Pox in MI.
Best regards, George Greene
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George M. Greene II
68 Willow Lane
Wiscasset, ME 04578
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
207-882-8074
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Kevin,
I would be equally concerned about the inevitable wind-blown dust and its
effect on bacterial disease, dislike of u-pick customers for sand storms.
The company may have a written plan for controlling dust (sprinkling with
water, etc), but this often is an idealistic idea rather than a reali
Hello everyone.
I was contacted by a friend with a small orchard near Buffalo, MN who
has learned that a new property owner plans to surface mine gravel on
land adjacent to, and upslope of his small orchard. Eventually, the
property owner intends to sub-divide the land after the gravel is
re
