Apple-Crop: Other organic-approved chemicals

2010-02-15 Thread Con.Traas
Hello Dave and all, Here in Europe potassium bicarbonate is now used as an organically-approved mildew fungicide. It also appears to have some scab activity. I do not use it as my apples tend towards lower calcium, and I do not want to make that worse by adding Potassium, but I wonder if you use i

Apple-Crop: treatments vs genetic traits

2010-02-15 Thread Con.Traas
Hello Arthur, In an ideal world, you are quite correct that resistant varieties provide more promise, and I am all in favour of using them, either to grow, or in breeding programs. However, in our biological world, the disease-resistant tree is always at a disadvantage compared to the disease orga