My continue battle with my M 7 apples. Generally how tall do must people allow their M 7 apples to get. I like to kept them at about 6 to 7 ft for ease of...
Hi Walt, My M7's are 12' tall and about 15' in diameter. If you are getting a lot of suckers and poor production, you are probably pruning your trees too...
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Thanks - - I thought that might be the case. Good luck with the season. Walt ... From: Brian Caldwell<mailto:caldwell@...> To:...
For years I tried to keep M7 at 12X20 spacing to 7-8 foot height for ease of harvest. It just doesn't work I'd never plant M7 even if the trees were free. ...
I was asked the following about lime sulfur by a top-notch IPM grower: I am transitioning a three acre block of Honeycrisp to organic. This is the first year...
Hi all, I use LS at 1/2 gal per 100 gallons + sulfur at 5#/100 if I feel like I've missed an infection period. In fact, on one orchard I spray only with that ...
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Does anyone know if the apple codling moth is nocturnal or diurnal? I have approximately 8 acres of various types apple tree in S. Cal mountains. Most of my...
I am using pheremone traps to monitor Codling Moth flight. I check every 2-3 days for moths. Earlier in the week I had 6 captured moths and when I went out ...
I'm looking for feedback on more than a few deaths in my new planting. Trees that budded out this spring have rapidly declined - an event that's still going...
The fairly consistent 'foot off the ground' would lead me to ask if you perhaps had a foot of snow during some period this winter where the temperature was...
Hey Jim, Good hearing from you! I want to flesh out a few further thoughts on this winterkill extravaganza . . . Often this trunk damage ends at about two feet...
Any chance that they drowned? H ... Any chance that they drowned? H On Jun 26, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Michael Phillips wrote: I’m looking for feedback on more...
Bail Hanna
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Jun 27, 2006 8:33 pm
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I wanted to share Jim Cummins thoughts on my tree losses. It's useful info to file away in the ol' brain: This set of problems really doesn't sound like...
Hello This season I planted about twenty five trees, mostly from St. Lawrence nursery on a hillside I cleared. I also transplanted some two year old trees also...
I'd suggest making sure no water pools around the trunks (you say it's on a hillside, so I assume you can channel any standing water away from them). If you...
I think you can only wait. It helps a lot to cultivate roughly around them about 6 foot diameter circle....
Bail Hanna
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Jul 18, 2006 2:33 am
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I have a piece of land that I recently cleared and am planning to plant with apple trees. The site is a sloping hill which was pretty damp so I've tiled it and...
Hi Seth, Clearing land and installing drainage tile means mucho machine work has been done. The ecosystem of a living soil has been disturbed (understandably)...
Oats would be good to get quick cover for erosion prevention, and would winterkill, though it really doesn't get you started on permanent cover, but it will...
Hi all, I've just started to do some research on using silicates for disease control, particularly against sooty blotch and flyspeck. It seems that natural...
Brian Caldwell
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Sep 20, 2006 3:22 am
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Hello. I just found your group and had a little time to do some searching of the archives. My husband and I with our 4 children live in the southeast corner of...
Misy - Please also feel free to avail yourself of the Network I run for growers in the Upper Midwest. You are further south, but some info on our website...
Thank you Deirdre for this welcome and for the additional information. I have a lot to learn, but I feel very fortunate to have found this group and the links...
Quite a lot of work was done with potassium silicate - waterglass - by biodynamic growers from the 1940's into the 80's; it's effective in managing summer...
Bail Hanna
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Sep 28, 2006 11:52 am
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The certifier I am working with to get my newly planted orchard certified in three years pointed out that latex paint contains things that are not on the NOP's...
For Southwest injury, you are talking strictly reflection of light by the white paint. Linseed oil (unless I am badly mistaken) won't leave a white coating,...
Deirdre, Do not use linseed oil. I am surprised that your certifier is concerned about the paint. Other certifiers are not. Maybe you should rephrase the...
Yes, indeed, I neglected to say that the linseed oil would need some sort of pigment, although possibly kaolin clay might add that? Thanks for the milk paint...
The biodynamic solution is to make a wash of fresh cow manure and clay about 50/50. This does so much more than latex paint. Try it, you'll be amazed at the...
Bail Hanna
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Oct 20, 2006 7:53 pm
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This kind of stuff reminds me why we don't certify. Hugh W...
