Add a slug of drywall mud to the mixture and you'll have borers covered
too! This is John Bunker's recipe at Fedco Trees in Maine and was
effective last year in reducing borer damage here.
Kevn Hauser
Kuffel Creek Apple Nursery
Riverside, California
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 03:48:36 -0600, Nick Luckin
I've been using 1/3 paint, 1/3 water, 1/3 all-purpose drywall joint
compound; this is still thin enough to brush on, but makes a pretty good
crust. I had "Gripper" white primer left over (Home Depot) and have been
using it, despite dire warnings about not using exterior paint. If it
works again t
Well the good news is that we're gloriously free from Dogwood borer and
round-headed borer. But per union contract we have the Pacific Flathead
borer. The main ingredient for the drywall mud is gypsum, but may act as
you specified. It's cheap and available everywhere, and much more
effective tha
It used to be said exterior paint had harmful chemicals that could harm
your tree, but EPA is so strict now that it's no worry: use whatever is in
the garage.
Kevin Hauser
n Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:01:17 -0800, "Tommie van de Kamp"
wrote:
> Just to clarify, is it best to use diluted interior or exter
Fruit cruelty! How can you purpously stunt your tree's growth like that?
And making the fruit so easy to reach only encourages excess consumption.
If you had any goodness in you at all you would plant the trees on seedling
rootstock so that the big trees would keep the fruit out of reach of the
I'd sure like to try it in a high-heat, low-chill climate; Fuji excells
here and I wonder if that parent imparts some of these qualities to allow a
Honeycrisp cross to be more productive here.
Kevin Hauser
Riverside, California
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 02:17:07 + (GMT), david_d...@me.com wrote:
>
The good news is that yes, there is a whole line of red-fleshed apples
with a range of tastes and growth habits that are also scab-resistant.
They are bred by Marcus Kobelt at Lubera in Switzerland
http://www.lubera.co.uk/luberacouk/redlove.html
The bad news is that they are not available in the
Hi Art;
Are you talking about total length of a row, or length between support
posts?
Kevin Hauser
Kuffel Creek Apple Nursery
Riverside, CA
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 08:23:45 -0500, Arthur Kelly
wrote:
> What is the longest length of trellis for tall spindle apple planting
that
> growers have experie
Greg;
We get the same damage here in Southern California, but from sunburn, not
Southwest Injury. But the damage is the same, dead cambium layer and
sunken bark. Besides robbing vigor from the tree, here it also attracts
borers who take advantage of the tree's inability to sap out the maggot,
an
I actually think he'll have better results putting the clock parts in an
incubator. 4,000-year-old strain?
I know a much, much easier way to get access to the Tree of Life.
Kevin Hauser
Kuffel Creek Apple Nursery
On Tue, 13 May 2014 22:48:53 -0400, David Doud wrote:
> I don't know quite wha
I concur with Dennis' evaluation of Dr. Robinson's videos; this system has
forced even stubborn high-chill varieties to transition from vegetative
mode to fruiting mode in hot climates and the tropics.
I wanted to address Matthew's desire to keep the trees around 6' tall.
This sounds like it woul
As a nurseryman with a stake in East Africa, I find the discussion
fascinating. Here GMO is being used to slightly modify a cosmetic flaw in
an apple for marketing purposes; where I work with in Uganda, it is being
used to give resistance to plantain bananas to a devistating disease that
is wiping
Low-chill climate didn't help us with the thinning any this year; despite
an almost tropical winter, I still ended up with snowball blooms and
annoying grape cluster-like applets that take forever to hand-thin before
they snap the branches off.
Kevin Hauser
On Sun, 31 May 2015 15:30:08 -0400, Ar
Warmer light enhances reds, yellows, and oranges, so the cool white
fluorescents can make it tough.
The easiest way may be to install a solatube skylight
http://www.solatube.com or for the budget-minded, a liter of light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Fpsw_yYPg
But with shortening day length
Mid-80s here in Southern California, high-chill apples still do fine in
the spring.
Enjoy it while you can.
Kevin Hauser
Kuffel Creek Apple Nursery
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:17:31 -0500, Arthur Kelly
wrote:
> Should I be worried about this weather? Not that there's anything I can
do
> about it.
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