This spring, we sprayed a seemingly ridiculous number of times against scab. We were free of scab until many lesions from a major rain on 6/1 showed up. From...
Brian Caldwell
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Jul 30, 2003 6:34 pm
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Greetings Brian. Not sure if you received a response on this - I'm finding that if there are responses on applenet I don't seem to get them. Anyhow, I have...
Brian - this isn't a complete answer, but in the right direction. Risk of russetting by sulfur increases with high temperatures(which I take to mean daily...
Glen Koehler
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Aug 4, 2003 2:57 pm
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Just letting folks know in digital la-la land that I had my first "apple" the other day. Really a crab a friend discovered while running from hornets last...
just a message to keep the list active- no activity means it gets deleted from the server. Jim PS- I'm doing well. Have the ground dug up to start the...
Hi Jim Gallott, Great to hear that you're getting orchard ground ready!! We were plastered too, but not quite that bad. Close though! Liberty, Enterprise,...
Brian Caldwell
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Nov 6, 2003 3:47 am
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Here's another one to wake up Applenet... Dave Rosenberger research trial this past season at Hudson Valley Lab found that Oxidate was ineffective for scab...
Glen Koehler
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Nov 6, 2003 1:36 pm
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Hi, Does anyone have info about a good-sized organic orchard in NYS called Knapp Orchard? I'd like to get in touch with them. Thanks, Brian Brian Caldwell ...
Tell me what you all think about this scenario for orchard lepidoptera, each spray application of course decided upon the reality of a given orchard site: a.....
You shouldn't need to fill out anything at Yahoo to be getting messages. To access archived messages may be different. Nothing that I know has changed in the...
Hi all, The basic issue here is that researchers are finding that organic vegetable growers who apply substantial rates (like 10 T/A) of compost every year are...
Brian Caldwell
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Jan 11, 2004 5:36 pm
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I guess I'll weigh in on this because it interests me from a particular vantage point, namely in the context of a closed farm organism, which I see as the only...
Hanna Bail, Hugh Will...
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Jan 11, 2004 11:48 pm
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Hi Michael hope you got my last note to you re- proposed winter hob-nob together. Also I just composed my response to the whole orchard nutrient dialogue, and...
Hanna Bail, Hugh Will...
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Jan 12, 2004 12:01 am
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First, let me add this response to the mix from Dan Kelly in Missouri: I am a bit ambivalent about the dependency of organic growers use of Dipel as you stated...
... I wouldn't have trusted Dipel for CM control under the circumstances of having 25 acres, most of which went wholesale. Smaller scale, where you'd need...
Hi folks, On a very reductionist level-- As far as I know, potassium in wood ash is very soluble and if applied on the surface will reach the roots of grass...
Brian Caldwell
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Jan 14, 2004 4:47 am
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The place to be for apple growers here in the Northeast every March is at our annual networking meeting in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. Rumors had...
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Hanna Bail, Hugh Will...
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Jan 29, 2004 1:34 am
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Hi all, Since we got whammed here last season on our scab-susceptible varieties, I've been doing a lot of reading this winter about approaches other than the...
Brian Caldwell
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Feb 24, 2004 2:46 am
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I've been having a discussion with a few folks about the severity of scab to be found in an abandoned commercial orchard by the second year. I witnessed this...
hi michael, i would think it is coming from two directions: yes most likely the scab themselves being selected from years of chemical/elemental pressure, but...
I like the jim hightower quote, is that why mr. nader threw his hat into the ring? anyways about apples and scab, my initial scientifically deficient- ...
Dear Michael, I've watched the trees on land that I own, a commercial orchard abandoned in 1993, keep fewer and fewer leaves each year. I've kept things pretty...
Walter Phelps
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Mar 5, 2004 5:20 pm
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Hi Walter, Good to hear from you! Last time we talked about your comeback trees the issue was devastating frog eye leaf spot, ie. black rot, and not scab. But ...
Hi folks, As to the abandoned orchards/scab discussion--it probably takes a couple years for the soil/leaf/etc microorgansims to come into better balance. ...
Brian Caldwell
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Mar 8, 2004 2:39 pm
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I've seen the same decline on the fellowship orchard five years after conversion from conventional, and it's a question that comes up for a lot of oeople...
Hanna Bail, Hugh Will...
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Mar 14, 2004 2:17 am
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I think it would be really important to get real data from Mark Fulford on this topic. Could you try to flesh this out for our meeting brian? I can well...
Hanna Bail, Hugh Will...
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Mar 14, 2004 2:47 am
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I second Hugh's suggestion for discussions of sooty blotch/flyspeck and organic certification. For those who won't be at the Stump Sprouts meeting, please...
