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Apple/Pear Trees

Cedar is good!! Limestone -I just got regular road limestone. Cheap. With bark mulch- just make sure doesn’t touch tree.... protect trunk & keep it clean/clear. Voles & mice r issue.
Dwgh- think they may bounce back if keep em Sprayed.
Insecticide & fungicide...... u will b reading labels & using multiple. Some “look expensive” but they are low rate so if u spend a few hundred bucks- realize it’s gonna last long time.... I have all these on hand off top of head:
Merivon
Copper spray
Myclobutinyl
Captan
Propiconazole
Mancozeb
streptomycin for blight & few other antibiotics out there if blight is issue.

Insecticides.... some of these I only use in specific careful cases (some nasty, some not & depends if I eating or not) read labels- some aren’t for certain things or times. Just do homework:
Neem oil
Malathion
Perythrins like permethrin & bifenthrin
triazicide
Imacloprid (nasty but does have place in my scenario with no risk to bees)
Few others. Even a miticide if needed.
 
Dont be this guy. (Don't be me). I accidentally smoked 8 very nice 2nd year trees. Broke my spray wand on my backpack sprayer while in the field. Spray was kinda helter skelter. Thought I could control it well enough. Nope. Must have got HOT gly on trees a bit too much. My own stupidity pushing it too far. Thankfully I didn't spray all my trees that day. Just a dumb move. 2 years of babying down the tubes. Oh well... guess I'll start over in the spring. I'll leave them just in case the 1% chance they come back next year.
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Going to be bushels of apples this year! I’ll be replacing a few apples that died with the varieties that are flourishing. These are on MM 111 rootstock in very well drained soil.


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Im thinking this pear tree caught some chemical drift. It turned brown and i thought it was a lost cause. Today i see it has a very lively new shoot. Should i cut the dead part off and see if it makes it?
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Resilient little buggers!! Pears can put on lots of growth fast. Hmmmmm. I think I’d leave it. But not sure the best course there. The top part may bounce back. Report back on how it does in next month.
 
I’m putting in a rootstock order with Cummins if anyone wants to go in to save on shipping costs.


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Japanese beetles mauled 2 of my wildlife apple trees this year, one tree has 4 apples on it.


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Pruned some 4yr old apple and pear trees today. It always amazes me how much you think you pruned and the next year there’s a bunch more to clean up. How much is too much pruning? These trees are to the size I need a saw and can’t do it all with a pruners.

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These pear trees always have me scratching my head, so many straight up branches and crossing branches. Picking one leader is tough. Needed a saw to finalize the pruning on this one
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LoessHillsArcher said:
Pruned some 4yr old apple and pear trees today. It always amazes me how much you think you pruned and the next year there’s a bunch more to clean up. How much is too much pruning? These trees are to the size I need a saw and can’t do it all with a pruners.

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These pear trees always have me scratching my head, so many straight up branches and crossing branches. Picking one leader is tough. Needed a saw to finalize the pruning on this one
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Its kind of hard to tell from a picture but I think you could do more trimming on the Apple Tree. I would also make a distinct leader. Take a look at pages 8 and 9. I have always done the 24 inches between scaffold branches and like the results.

https://fruit.triforce.cals.wisc.ed.../36/2011/06/Growing-Apples-in-Wisconsin-2.pdf
 
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