Hello all, on the topic of Apogee and shoot blight control: Does anyone know if the use of Apogee in previous years causes a “long term” reduction in FB susceptibility?
The rationale is this: 1) Apogee thickens cells, which slows FB. 2) FB naturally progresses more slowly in older wood In the year following Apogee, would the wood treated with Apogee act similar to “old wood” ? Additional question: can FB survive in cankers on Apogee treated wood? In other words, does the modified cell structure alter the capacity of FB winter survival? I sent the question to George Sundin, but no answer yet. If anyone else has info or literature I missed, please pass it along! If these are unanswered questions worthy of research, let me know. I was asked to submit a research proposal for 2016 and I would include this. Vincent > Le 2015-05-22 à 10:28, Kushad, Mosbah M <kus...@illinois.edu> a écrit : > > Ellen: My observations support your conclusion.. In years with heavy bloom > Apogee is not needed and did little to show visible reduction of shoot > growth.. We did not have fireblight in that block and so it will be > interesting to hear comments about shoot blight infection in heavy versus > light crop years.. Mosbah > > -----Original Message----- > From: apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net > [mailto:apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net] On Behalf Of Ellen > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 7:33 AM > To: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net > Subject: [apple-crop] shoot control > > This question is asked out of profound ignorance, but I was just wondering if > this is a year to skip the Apogee application? The bloom has been so heavy, > it's hard to see whether the shoots have grown at all. Not much energy going > in that direction. What do you think? > > -- > Ellen McAdam > McDougal Orchards LLC > 201 Hanson Ridge Road > Springvale, ME 04083 > 207-324-5054 > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.net > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.net > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list apple-crop@virtualorchard.net http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
