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

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

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

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

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

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