Hi folks, Here are my notes from the 2001 Low Spray and Organic Apple Growers Meeting, held March 22 and 23 in Hawley, MA. They aren't very complete, just the...
brian caldwell
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Apr 1, 2001 2:36 pm
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Hello all, Some years ago, I read an article by Michel Gautier, a French arboriculturalist: "Le pommier et sa culture", in Arboriculture fruitiere, No 302,...
Claude Jolicoeur
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Apr 1, 2001 10:57 pm
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Howdy - just read the Scripps-Howard article about Oxidate attached to Jim's message. A couple of responses: 1) you really have to question the intellectual...
Glen Koehler
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Apr 2, 2001 1:30 pm
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Hi, Glen, Thanks for your thoughtful, intelligent comments regarding the Oxidate piece that I was asked to share with this group. It was precisely the kind of...
Richard Ossolinski
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Apr 2, 2001 4:36 pm
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Apple Pruning Approaches to Maximize Orchard Performance By Jeremy Compton, Rutgers North Jersey Tree Fruit Technician and Win Cowgill, Area Fruit Agent (note:...
Brian Caldwell
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Apr 4, 2001 1:35 pm
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Hi Claude, I've wrestled with this too. When a new shoot arises on a bearing tree, it can form fruit spurs during its second year of growth. And if my memory...
Brian Caldwell
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Apr 4, 2001 2:06 pm
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... Brian, Maybe there are exceptions, but I think tip bearers like Cortland and Redfree are also annual bearers. So the problem does not arise in that case....
Claude Jolicoeur
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Apr 4, 2001 3:24 pm
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... Is it the HO2 that is active on the leaf, or H2O2 as a breakdown product that is actually active? (I don't know). It may be analogous to ...
Jim Gallott
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Apr 5, 2001 2:51 pm
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In my Oxidate critique I said "Its only claimed activity is to make exposed conidia nonviable." I don't think that is correct. As Jim's message points out, it...
Glen Koehler
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Apr 5, 2001 5:07 pm
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in previous message "season" refers to primary scab season from about 1/2 inch green to about a week after petal fall. Not the entire growing season. Glen W....
Glen Koehler
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Apr 5, 2001 5:35 pm
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Hi folks, Woops, according to my own logic I bollixed up the sequence of pruning to fruiting. Thinking about it further, it seems to me that we should see a...
Brian Caldwell
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Apr 5, 2001 5:46 pm
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Brian, But then, how could we explain that on an alternating tree, there is just about no growth during OFF years and normal growth during ON years? Claude...
Claude Jolicoeur
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Apr 8, 2001 3:19 pm
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Hi Claude et al, I think that the amount of new shoot growth on apple trees is determined by many factors, including overall tree vigor, pruning, and how rainy...
brian caldwell
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Apr 8, 2001 5:11 pm
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Well, my notes don't permit me to substantiate either. Gonna have to go back to basics - i.e. observation. Has anyone on the list taken notes on growth vs...
Claude Jolicoeur
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Apr 8, 2001 10:42 pm
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Claude. I think we have a perfect situation. Our Macs have gone terribly biennial ever since the great ice storm of 98. We have just finished radically...
Gord Hawkes
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Apr 8, 2001 11:48 pm
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Gord, Here in Quebec, zone 4, I also have never experienced fireblight even if, through the years, I have never hesitated to make this sort of radical pruning...
Claude Jolicoeur
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Apr 9, 2001 12:16 pm
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claude, brian, gord et al.- thank you for the interesting discussion on pruning and alternate bearing. it is helpful to me as many of the apples i grow at the...
Alan Surprenant
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Apr 10, 2001 2:51 pm
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the snow is going fassssst ! I finally got out with my sulphur mix -re scab et al. And my 6 yr old says to moi,'Dad-I ain't goin' have apple trees when I grow...
John Defayette
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Apr 10, 2001 5:17 pm
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Claude, This is the part of your message that I'm hoping will elicit some (scientific) explanations: "What is interesting with this Mac is that even on the...
Richard Ossolinski
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Apr 10, 2001 11:31 pm
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... Well, Richard, this is an old tree on its decline, who has suffered from scab and cankers. It still sends out lots of flowers every second year, but I...
Claude Jolicoeur
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Apr 11, 2001 3:00 am
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To the group: We are under contract to buy an Orchard here in Maine. I received soil analysis yesterday and have some concerns over the results. The house...
Brien & Emily Davis
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Apr 14, 2001 10:31 pm
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... Dept health probably better source for background levels and 'safe' limits. I would guess that sample #6 probably gives you an idea of the background...
Jim Gallott
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Apr 16, 2001 12:01 pm
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dear john- mouse guards made from hardware cloth 1/4 cut to whatever height you want might help. be sure to keep an eye towards girdling the trunk as the...
Alan Surprenant
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Apr 16, 2001 3:02 pm
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Brien - contact Lebelle Hicks, Maine State Toxicologist, 287-2731. - Glen Glen W. Koehler Associate Scientist, Univ. Maine Coop. Extension New England Pest...
Glen Koehler
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Apr 16, 2001 6:46 pm
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FYI From: kathryn marsh To: OGL@... Subject: organic works - the evidence Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2001, 3:24 AM from todays "Nature" Nature Science Update...
Richard Ossolinski
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Apr 20, 2001 2:14 pm
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We are working on a 20-year-old, 5,000 tree apple orchard which had not been pruned in 4 years. There has certainly been scab as the trees have not had care...
Walter Phelps
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Apr 23, 2001 11:45 am
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Hi Walter, I would chip the limbs in place. There's great soil benefits to supporting a microorganism culture that's wood-fed. We grow our trees in a meadow ...
Michael Phillips
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Apr 25, 2001 10:28 am
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Dear Michael, Thanks for the advice. Yours truly, Walter Phelps ... From: Michael Phillips To: applenet@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April...
Walter Phelps
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Apr 25, 2001 11:28 am
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I just got a copy of this fascinating book from the British Henry Doubleday Research Assn. It is available for 15 pounds at ...
Brian Caldwell
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Apr 30, 2001 8:01 pm
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Organic Fruit Production; A review of Current Practice and Knowledge Brian: Does this book have any practical value?? IE... Can we use it to add or change...
