Re: Apple-Crop: Apple trunks, glyphosate and black rot

2009-11-11 Thread Jon Clements
Mark, you may already know that David Rosenberger of Cornell's Hudson Valley Lab has suspected that glyphosate may be one culprit in the type of injury you describe. We have seen unexplained tree decline and eventual death in several Massachusetts (and Connecticut) orchards (individual or groups

Apple-Crop: Apple trunks, glyphosate and black rot

2009-11-11 Thread Mark Longstroth
I visited a grower this fall who asked help in determining what was wrong in several of his apple plantings. He had young trees which were dying a slow death. They had cankers on the trunks, some were basal, some below and some among the scaffold limbs. The grower used a used a mixture of several