Greetings folks from the great white north (well not white yet). I am putting the orchard to bed for another season and am going to whitewash the trunks of a...
2002 Apple Greetings! The place to be for apple growers here in the Northeast every March is at our annual networking meeting in the Berkshire Mountains of...
Michael Phillips
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Feb 11, 2002 1:44 pm
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Hi folks, At our recent low spray/organic meeting in western Mass, I mentioned that Trichogramma ostriniae is now commercially available. IPM Laboratories ...
Brian Caldwell
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Mar 23, 2002 4:05 pm
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A very good summary of codling moth mating disruption was posted by Ted Alway at the following web site: ...
Brian Caldwell
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May 16, 2002 2:12 pm
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Hey all- Haven't heard anything from anybody of how the Toad meeting went. In cleaning out up here, we forgot about the leftover codling moth mating disruption...
James C. Gallott
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May 26, 2002 5:37 pm
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Hi, I must be really out of the loop, because I haven't heard much about fruit crops being lost to recent frost and abominable pollination weather. I think we...
Brian Caldwell
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May 28, 2002 9:05 pm
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Hello Jim and Karen Discouraging drive by West Meadow Farm last Friday. Did not look like any spraying was taking place and I could see impressive/diverse...
William Suhr
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May 29, 2002 3:26 am
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Brian et al, For interest sake we too got a big frost in Merrickville,On. Everything SEEMS okay.I don't have hives and heard a queen fly by a week ago-she was ...
John Defayette
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May 29, 2002 5:36 pm
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Bill- Since the orchard closed down Dec 31, essentially nothing has been, or will be, done with it this year. Karen & I are still renting the house here, but...
James C. Gallott
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May 31, 2002 2:07 am
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Hi folks, I finally have a fairly good idea of our crop set after 24 degrees at pink and 28, then 26 during bloom and at petal fall. The potential crop looks...
Brian Caldwell
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Jun 6, 2002 2:28 am
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... Dear Brian: Good to hear that most of your orchard weathered the frost well. I am interested in the 3 day spray of Oxidate. Can you give more details? Did...
More on the oxidate-- I used a 1% solution, and sprayed on 3 successive mornings. I'm wondering if the evening would be better, since the spray would...
Brian - If you're in the mood, here are more questions relevant to efficacy of Oxidate on the scab infection period. 1) What was the date of the unprotected...
Glen Koehler
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Jun 7, 2002 1:40 am
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I should have added that the Oxidate price was per application. So the 3-spray Oxidate regime price would be $60-120 per acre per infection period (assuming...
Glen Koehler
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Jun 7, 2002 1:47 am
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I think Glen asks great questions. The hydrogen peroxide approach is definitely an instantaneous event. The back-to-back curative sprays for three days...
Michael Phillips
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Jun 7, 2002 12:11 pm
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Hi Michael - I have to admit that I love apple scab. Evolution has packed a lot of smarts into something with no brain. We need to distinguish between 1)...
Glen Koehler
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Jun 7, 2002 1:27 pm
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To save anyone the bother of telling me to at least get the name right, I know its "Oxidate" not Oxidant. I let my spell checker ran amok and didn't notice the...
Glen Koehler
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Jun 7, 2002 1:35 pm
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Hi folks, This is a really interesting discussion. My dabbling with Oxidate is based on the ideas that 1) it apparently leaves no residue, as opposed to...
Brian Caldwell
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Jun 7, 2002 3:17 pm
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All, This discussion of using oxidate for scab resistance happened to coincide with a lunch I just had with a coworker who said that she had heard that scab...
Andrew Bell
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Jun 7, 2002 7:15 pm
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Hi folks. Seems I got bounced from applenet sometime ago due to a change in e-mail routing. Looked at the discussions on oxidate and scab - great discussion....
Hi Andrew. In talking to research scientists at Ag Canada in Quebec they have indicated that the possibility exists depending on the level of antagonistic...
Greetings folks. We are planning to build a cider processing facility for the purpose of hard cider production. This is a small scale operation (approx....
Two comments here about immunity - I've watched two commercial orchards here in New England that were abandoned as the wholesale and cider markets crashed....
Michael Phillips
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Jun 12, 2002 1:58 pm
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Michael, Why do orchards not cross plant to suggest,confuse or even weaken the host-virus interaction? On a previous note to this group I asked the question...
John Defayette
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Jun 12, 2002 7:47 pm
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Hi Jim, I've attached a draft SARE preposal I'm submitting. Are you interested? I figure that you have a lot of experience with close-to-organic and organic ...
Brian Caldwell
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Jun 14, 2002 1:46 pm
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Hi folks, Woops, I sent that last message to the whole group--meant for Jim. Luckily, it's not toooooo embarrassing. If you-all want to take a look and give...
Brian Caldwell
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Jun 14, 2002 1:50 pm
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Hi Brian - Am glad you're continuing your commitment to healthy production of fruit. Wanted to download your attached SARE proposal, but my virus scanner says ...
