I use 1 part interior latex paint with 3 parts water and a cheap Ace Hardware hand 2 gallon sprayer (about $13, $9.99 on sale). I spray the southeast side first (walking quickly down the rows) and then the southwest side next. I sprayed 1100 trees (1/2 caliper) this way in 4-5 hours. Toss the sprayer, not worth cleaning...
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Win Cowgill <cowg...@njaes.rutgers.edu>wrote: > I know of no data on joint compound for lesser or greater peac borer > control. > Win > > Win Cowgill > Editor Horticultural News > Professor and Area Fruit Agent > New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station > Rutgers Cooperative Extension > PO Box 2900 > 314 State Route 12, Bldg. 2 > Flemington, NJ 08822-2900 > Office 908-788-1339 > Fax- 908-806-4735 > Email: cowg...@njaes.rutgers.edu > www.horticulturalnews.org/ > www.virtualorchard.net/ > http://virtualorchard.net/njfruitfocus/index.html > www.snyderfarm.rutgers.edu/investigators/cowgill.html > www.appletesters.net > > > > On Jul 14, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Arthur Kelly <kellyorcha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > It seems like past discussions indicated that adding the joint compound > helped repel borers. What do you think? > > Art Kelly > Kelly Orchards > Acton, ME > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Kurt W. Alstede > <k...@alstedefarms.com>wrote: > >> Gentlemen:**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Please find below our top secret recipe. We have never had any adverse >> effects from exterior paint…in fact we add the fungicide to help protect >> the tree against wounds and the thiram acts as a rodent repellent. We use >> the cheapest white exterior paint that we can find and generally spray it >> on as a white wash with a handgun from the bottom twelve inches of the >> scaffold limbs to the ground.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Hope that this helps.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> PEACH TREE PAINT RECIPE.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> 1 GAL WHITE EXTERIOR LATEX PAINT**** >> >> 2 GAL WATER. ( 1 PART PAINT X 2 PARTS WATER )**** >> >> ½ POUND OF THIRAM PER GALLON OF WHITEWASH.**** >> >> 2 TABLESPOONS OF TOPSIN-M PER GALLON OF WHITEWASH.**** >> >> MIX WHITEWASH, AND ADD THIRAM AND TOPSIN-M. STIR THOROUGHLY.**** >> >> APPLY TO THE TREES WITH PAINT BRUSHES OR SPRAY GUN 12 TO 18 INCHES AFTER >> SCAFFOLDS WITH**** >> >> DAYTIME TEMPERATURES ABOVE 50 DEGREES F.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> *Kurt W. Alstede* >> >> General Manager,**** >> >> Alstede Farms, LLC**** >> >> P.O. Box 278**** >> >> 84 County Route 513 S. (Old Rt. 24)**** >> >> Chester, New Jersey 07930**** >> >> United States of America**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Tel: 908-879-7189**** >> >> Fax: 908-879-7815**** >> >> www.alstedefarms.com**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net [mailto: >> apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net] *On Behalf Of *Arthur Kelly >> *Sent:* Sunday, July 14, 2013 8:46 AM >> *To:* Apple-Crop >> *Subject:* [apple-crop] Stone fruit trunk painting**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Does anyone know the recipe for trunk painting including joint compound?* >> *** >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >
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