RE: Apple-Crop: Mystery disease?

2010-12-06 Thread Jourdain Jean-Marc
Hi Claude I agree with Dave on dapple apple viroïd hypothesis You will find here after a link on the description of the disease in our book on Viruses diseases of fruit trees. You are lucky its one of very few books that were published in English...!! See in the last page the table with variety s

RE: Apple-Crop: Patulin in Apple

2010-12-06 Thread Jourdain Jean-Marc
Hi Jose In very few words... from my basic knowledge For apple the main source of patulin is penicillium fungi mould in our conditions (western Europe), this could be different in other climates. Other fungi are producing toxins... To avoid the occurrence of penicillium mould on fruit, in my kno

Re: Apple-Crop: Mystery disease?

2010-12-06 Thread Claude Jolicoeur
A 22:41 10.12.05 -0500, vous avez écrit : I suspect that the apple tree that bears these fruit is infected with the dapple apple/scar skin viroid. Thank you very much Dave and Jean-Marc. The informations you have provided are very informative and useful. In addition, I have found some

Re: Apple-Crop: Useful review on colony collapse disorder

2010-12-06 Thread Arthur Kelly
Good review of CCD. We should all pause and consider every time we add a product to the spray tank. On a side note I was waiting for a sandwich in a shop in Hollis NH and was perusing the cooler where they have some very interesting imported beer and saw and purchased an Irish cider known as Magn

Re: Apple-Crop: Patulin in Apple

2010-12-06 Thread Jose Manuel Pereira Cardoso
*Thanks Jean-Marc* My problem is when fungicides are no longer approved by the European Commission (imazalil, thiabendazole) in post-harvest treatments, and them fungi will rise, and high levels of patulin willl be found, and I am searching integrated solutions to reduce populations of fungi, and

Re: Apple-Crop: Patulin in Apple

2010-12-06 Thread Vincent Philion
Hi! Is this true? both fungicides pulled in europe? I know imazalil is used a lot in citrus as well. That's big news. Vincent Le 2010-12-06 à 12:15, Jose Manuel Pereira Cardoso a écrit : Thanks Jean-Marc My problem is when fungicides are no longer approved by the European Commission (imazalil,

RE: Apple-Crop: Mystery disease?

2010-12-06 Thread Balsillie
Just for interest, it seems this mystery disease is solved, but we had some Empire apples treated with Agogee last year that looked very similar. Learn from our mistakes! Doug and Leslie Balsillie -Original Message- From: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net [mailto:apple-c...@virtualorchard.ne

Apple-Crop: Apogee: cracking?

2010-12-06 Thread David Kollas
I would like to hear more about Apogee-induced cracking of Empire. Does anyone know the particular set of circumstances that result in cracking? I have safely used one or two applications at 4 ounces per 100 gallons on Empire a couple of years, but, having heard of possible cracki

Re: Apple-Crop: Apogee: cracking?

2010-12-06 Thread Win Cowgill
Apogee should not be used on Empire. Work done in NJ and NY confirmed this. See the 2003 winter issue of NY FRuit Quarterly http://www.nyshs.org/fq.php and http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=15267305 Win Cowgill Win Cowgill Editor Horticultural News Professor and Area Fruit Agent De