Saturday, September 20, 2003

 

Fruit Trees

High Yield lime "Sulfur Spray & Dormant Oil Spray

For Peach, Grapes, Apples, Raspberries, Pears, Cherries, Plums

Apply before the buds begin to swell
Apply in late Feb.
Spray peaches after leaves fall off

Apples
Spray with High yield LIme sulfur spray and Dormant Oil liquid I applied it 2nd week in March.
Use Ferti lome Fruit Spray Or liquid Seven Fruit tree Spray after that when buds have a little green and pink and have not opened up yet. Follow directions on the bottle.
Spray every two weeks.
Because I was gone around 3 weeks I bought a codling moth trap and hung in the tree to hopefully keep worms out of the apples. So I was not able to spray them every two weeks I missed one application. The trap was $12.50 for two of them and you change and put a new trap in tree after four weeks. You check trap every two or 3 days to see if you see codling moths arriving in it. This trap is for Apples, pears & walnut quince trees.
Grapes
Trim dead branc hes and new ones in March when the weather is around 54 degrees or over some and freezes at night. I trimmed the new growth to about 5 inches leaving two buds shoots on.
Spray when shoots are 4-6 " long
using foilage strength
Use dusting sulfur for rest of season at 7-10 day inervals.

peaches
apply lindane and diazinon .
Apply in spring before buds swell
Apply one appilication at summer foilage strength at petal fall.
Spray at dormant strength after leaves fall. Repeat in Spring.

Rashberries

spray once when canes new are 8 to 12 " long.
Spray at early spring strength
Repeat in the fall

Fertilize in the Early Spring with tree spikes all the trees using 2 spikes for every tree
soal the spikes in water for 48 hours and pour around tree trunk. or root system.
You can buy them at Wal Mart really reasonable. Put them in the ground April first.

Use Root Granules on Apricot and Peach tree spread around base of tree. When Fruit just starts to come on.

Lindane Spray & Diazinon
Nurseries don't sell diazinon so have to ask what to use in place of that with lindane.

Apple, Peach & Cherry

Spring time soak bark to runoff, trunk and crotch 2 tlb in a gal water.
This is used for peach borer. If there is sawdust at base of tree coming up out of the ground you have peach borer and it is a sliming clear look. Looks life jelly. Put 2 tlbs in a gallon and let it run down truck and in to the ground. A Friend told me to pull soil away from the base of the tree and scrape on the truck below the ground and put lindane on it. I did not do that because the ground was frozen . I think I have peach borer and my tree is only 2 years Old I probably lost it I just mixed up the solution and poured in down the tree truck and hope I saved the tree. I have no idea if I mixed it right because there was so little left in the bottle so I just poured it in a gallon bottle and put about 1" water in it and hope it was okay. The nursery said you cannot buy lindane spray anymore so I will go and find out what they have for peach borer and will put it on my web page when I find out what it is so it will be of help to you. It is called Tree & Shrub care (Bayer). It is really expensive but he guaranteed it was the best to use for this problem.

Late Feb do this and repeat every 3 to 4 weeks if necessary.
Do not apply within 60 days of harvest. Do not apply to fruit.

Seven

Apples and Pears

Apple 30 days after full bloom.

Peaches

Apply when crawlers are present. spray limbs and tree trunks thoroughly. Weekly during moth flight. Codling Moth.

Dormant Oil spray

spray on Apples, Pears and Peaches in late fall when all leaves have fallen off and it is really cold. EArly winter. Kill Corynium blight and other fungus diesease. Apply in Feb. which is early spring or March only use products labeled "Dormant Oil" or Superior Oil should be used.

posted by Marieva 8:50 PM