Hi folks, Things are not looking very good at our orchard, as we had our second hail storm of the season around 7/15 and it was pretty damaging. The fruit is ...
Brian Caldwell
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Aug 1, 2000 4:44 pm
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Greetings from the great expanse north of the 49th eh! We have a significant scab problem this year and I'm concerned with the spore load for next year. A...
Gord Hawkes
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Aug 16, 2000 11:03 pm
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Reducing potential spore loading all comes down to getting those fallen leaves to disappear. I've called my lime/flail mowing/ compost (earthworm ...
Michael and Nancy Phi...
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Aug 17, 2000 1:05 am
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Hi folks, Two falls ago after we had a nasty scab season, I sprayed the trees and fallen leaves with compost tea (after harvest, made from mature compost). I...
Brian Caldwell
bac11@...
Aug 18, 2000 3:25 pm
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... I have no experience with hydrogen peroxide, but would be interested in finding out more about it. Does ZeroTol have a site with info? How did you find...
Jim Gallott
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Aug 20, 2000 3:37 pm
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... I have this one. Nice fruit size and tree. Pretty much like a Macoun. But since I'm unimpressed with Macoun (JOMSMT, Just One More Soft Mac Type), I'm...
Jim Gallott
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Aug 20, 2000 3:37 pm
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Thanks for Jim's additional comments on the Cornell field day items. Another one about the chlorotic blotches on Honeycrisp--they could be virus-related....
brian caldwell
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Aug 20, 2000 5:08 pm
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Not weird..... Weird is the story of Adam and Eve.Eve hands Adam the apple, whats wrong with this picture? Thousands of years later-lets say Adam hands the...
John Defayette
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Aug 21, 2000 2:15 am
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Hi Jim and others. Sorry for not responding earlier - information on zerotol can be found at http://www.biosafesystems.com/ There are a number of concerns...
Gord Hawkes
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Sep 2, 2000 4:59 pm
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... Gord, In my little orchard near Quebec City, zone 4, I am getting very impressed with the Akane apple. A high quality early mid season. In my location, it ...
Claude Jolicoeur
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Sep 5, 2000 3:18 pm
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Hi folks, I also find Akane to be very scab resistant. It seems extra prone to flyspeck and sooty blotch, though. I like it's flavor. Redfree picks hard,...
Brian Caldwell
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Sep 5, 2000 6:09 pm
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... We've taken to using narrow-bladed shears to cut the fruit off of our Redfree trees....
Jim Gallott
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Sep 7, 2000 12:52 pm
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Brian Caldwell
bac11@...
Sep 7, 2000 8:45 pm
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Honeycrisp Maturity from Jim Wargo, Cornell Cooperative Extension There are no established harvest indices for best harvest dates for Honeycrisp in NY, but...
brian caldwell
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Sep 18, 2000 12:49 pm
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... Hmm. The last several years, the best quality for Honeycrisp was not reached until at least a week after start of Mac harvest. Marshall Macs in this area...
Jim Gallott
jgallot@...
Sep 19, 2000 2:44 am
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Brian Caldwell
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Sep 22, 2000 2:21 pm
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Hi all, I have been to the far side of the world (West Virginia actually) and had a chance to meet with Mike Glenn and Gary Putreka who initiated and continue ...
Michael and Nancy Phi...
mphil@...
Oct 4, 2000 12:01 pm
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... What other type of sulfur is there *except* elemental sulfur? Sulfur *is* an element. What other kind of formulation is there? -- Jim Gallott West...
Jim Gallott
jgallot@...
Oct 6, 2000 5:03 pm
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Somehow I knew as I typed that up I would be called out about 'elemental sulfur.' The warning given on the Surround label this past year was there because the...
Michael and Nancy Phi...
mphil@...
Oct 7, 2000 11:36 am
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I second the nomination of "Elemental Jim"! If this is true about trees being able to carry a heavier crop with kaolin, economically it will far surpass the...
Brian Caldwell
bac11@...
Oct 10, 2000 8:11 pm
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Hi folks, I thought you'd be interested in some items from a fruit meeting yesterday at Cornell-- We saw and heard about honeycrisp coloring differently on...
Brian Caldwell
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Oct 18, 2000 4:33 pm
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Hi folks, I've got a fair amount of stem end and calyx end splitting on my apples this season. I've seen it before too. Often on the bigger apples. Any...
Brian Caldwell
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Oct 18, 2000 4:33 pm
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Brain and all, I picked some Galas last week at Jim's for cider. They were overmature, of course, and the growing energy could literally not be contained. The...
Michael and Nancy Phi...
mphil@...
Oct 18, 2000 8:57 pm
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I hope the NY work turns up something. Here's an interesting excerpt from pg 176, "Organic Tree Fruit Mgmt" by Linda Edwards, 1998, Certified Organic...
Glen Koehler
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Oct 18, 2000 9:13 pm
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This is from Terence Robinson at Cornell, very preliminary-- We used two organic thinning treatments 1)Fish oil/limesulfur mixture 2) NC-99 (a...
Brian Caldwell
bac11@...
Nov 2, 2000 3:15 pm
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Good work on the blossom thinner trial connection -- I eagerly await the results and will hold off cutting down some Liberty trees. . .. The salt spray is...
Steve Page
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Nov 2, 2000 9:33 pm
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... From: JOHN_MOSKO@... <JOHN_MOSKO@...> Date: Thursday, November 02, 2000 8:22 PM Subject: Surround Trial - Comments in reply...
Michael and Nancy Phi...
mphil@...
Nov 3, 2000 11:00 am
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From Ian Merwin at Cornell-- There are several folks looking at soybean oil during bloomtime as a blossom/fruit thinner. I just talked with one of them (Anita...
Brian Caldwell
bac11@...
Nov 6, 2000 3:09 pm
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Abstract: Our economic reward system is not a democratic system because the rewards aren't divided up equally; and the concept of democracy is about equal ...
