Picture is a bit atypical of stink bug. Typical is heavier marking near
stem. Many pencil eraser sized marks, seldom with big sunken areas, seldom
with the 'colorful' marking that two fruits. Drought mark, bitter pit,
thinning/tractor/ladder/wind bruises all have a grey/beige/brown/black layer
of
Hail injury from at storm in early to mid-season? What are the internal
symptoms when cut perpendicularly through the lesions?
On Oct 7, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Jon Clements jmcext...@gmail.com
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Looks mostly like stink bug. Need to look at a cut straight into the fruit
through the injury. Stink bug injury will be deep and have the stylet marks,
maybe whitish to drying.
Dean
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Dean Polk,
Hi Jon: the sunken dark green spots are definitely cork spots. Peel the fruit
and you will see a brown corky area. Bitter pit usually does not go deep and
the spots are mostly black. I am not sure of the brown spots. They look
different from cork. The reason I say that is that the brown
For those of you who want to know more about boron function in the plant. Boron
is an essential nutrient in vascular plants; it is located mostly in the cell
wall forming a borate ester cross-linked rhamnogalacturonan II dimmer, which is
an essential component of the structure and function of
We've struggled over the last few years in describing some of the new apples.
Sweet, Tart, Hard, etc don't seem to cut it anymore but when I try to describe
them, I get too complicated. I'm curious as to what descriptors you all are
using. Needs to be simple, yet descriptive and
You might be interested in the list of descriptors on the Apple Identification
web site of the Seattle Tree Fruit Society/ Western Cascade Fruit Society.
http://www.seattletreefruitsociety.com/appleid.php These are aimed at helping
people to identify the unknown apple varieties they may have in
A little more info, I have been struggling for awhile now to attempt to
identify similar symptoms. We do of course have brown and green stink bug
here, and apparently increasing signs of BMSB activity. (But not
necessarily in orchard.) I have been told that bitter pit is typically more
superficial
Tim,
Thanks much for the great information. I'm on Bud 9 here and looks like I
have a good possibility for sucker control.
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Smith, Timothy J smit...@wsu.edu wrote:
Hi everyone,
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Yes, I did some work on that recently. See attached.
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I have used it for that purpose - generally works acceptably well, repeated
application keeps the suckers burned down and devigorated, but I have noticed
increased phytophthora incidence that I attribute to the practice -
David Doud
grower - Indiana
On Oct 8, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Hugh Thomas
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