The only deer deterrent I've seen that works long term is a good fence. I don't doubt you that deer can spread blight. I never believed it until it happened to me but fire blight can also be spread from the smoke (or more likely ash) from a burn pile. When a neighbor removed a block of severely blight Bosc pears the plume of smoke that expanded from the burn pile exactly matched the subsequent infection that occurred on full bloom Gala trees.
Bill Fleming Montana State University Western Ag Research Center 580 Quast Lane Corvallis, MT 59828 406-961-3025 Cell- 406-529-2409 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of lee elliott Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 6:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [apple-crop] Deer, Fireblight, Liquid Fence Deer browsing on young trees is spreading fireblight, I know this is true, a small fenced in area in my orchard has little to no fireblight while the rest is fire blight city, I am using Liquid Fence,on newly planted trees, its a product made from putrified egg whites, this stuff really works but has to be applied every 10 days or after major rain storms, problem is its is very expensive, a bottle that treats 4 gallons is $30 at the local farm store. I would like to know how to make some myself, does anyone know how to do this?? Lee Elliott, winchester, Illinois -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 6/6/14, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: apple-crop Digest, Vol 42, Issue 14 To: [email protected] Date: Friday, June 6, 2014, 11:00 AM Send apple-crop mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of apple-crop digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Sprayer Calibration Between Training Styles (Fleming, William) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 09:17:17 -0600 From: "Fleming, William" <[email protected]> To: Apple-crop discussion list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [apple-crop] Sprayer Calibration Between Training Styles Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Nick, as long as you are getting sufficient coverage in both growing systems I would personally find it easier to mix up two different tanks with different quantities of material rather than mess with swapping nozzles. Bill Fleming Montana State University Western Ag Research Center Corvallis, MT 59828 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Lucking Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 12:54 AM To: apple-crop discussion list Subject: Re: [apple-crop] Sprayer Calibration Between Training Styles Thanks for the responses. So when you guys use the spray controllers do you try to maintain the same GPA across all blocks? Seems like if you don't have one (like me) and you mix a tank to apply across multiple training styles with varying row spacing the pesticide rate per acre would be out of whack between them. Here's my scenario. 1.5 acres is conventional free standing and 1.5 is tall spindle. When I did TRV calculations last season and checked the GPM of sprayer nozzles obviously with the difference in row spacing the rate was way higher for the tall spindle block. When I adjusted the gear speed so the GPA would match the free standing block, tractor speed was way too fast ~4 MPH. I suppose I could get another set of smaller nozzles for the tall spindle block to try to keep things even between blocks. Any further advise? Cheers, Nick Lucking Cannon Valley Orchard Cannon Falls, MN _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://virtualorchard.net/pipermail/apple-crop/attachments/20140606/d08bb74a/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list [email protected] http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop End of apple-crop Digest, Vol 42, Issue 14 ****************************************** _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list [email protected] http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list [email protected] http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
