Apple/Pear Trees
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Really good - very in depth article on fungicides. Much is “good to know” & overboard for what’s needed. I would always have a few in Arsenal & I do use some at certain times.
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Tree Fruit Disease Toolbox - Fungicide Resistance Management
Resistance has sometimes resulted in pest-management-program failures. Below are presented tactics to help delay resistance to fungicides.
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Anyone ever try using tree tubes on pear trees? I would never do it on Apple, but i'm wondering on pear since they come basically as a single stick.
Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
I have used a tube in common wild apple plugs (from University of Idaho Nursery) with success !
Never tried Pear though !
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Never tried Pear though !
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Used on both apple & pear. Only issue I had was if they create 2+ main stems. But that’s easily pruned later.
cybball
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Dumb apple tree question. I have several Enterprise and Liberty trees that are entering year 4. I pruned them again over winter (3 months ago) so they are getting horizontal branch structure to some extent. Will the trees fruit this year, or not due to pruning? Just curious. Not a big deal, and am planning to let them go next season to gain some growth.
I have lots of Enterprise and Liberty that at 3 years are 10'+ tall and fruiting. Aggressive with fert, insecticide, water during drought, etc.
cybball
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Right. They would be fruiting, but I'm wondering if they still will due to me pruning the crap out of them. I started using your fertilizing method earlier in this thread. Should see some good results.
Daver
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Although my fruit tree experience at my farm in SE Iowa has been mostly a failure, I had/have fruit trees on my residential properties and have a fair amount of experience with them. Although where I live now has only 2 fruit trees, I used to live on a property with about 30 fruit trees, FWIW.
Now then, I pruned heavily about every other year and never felt like I restricted my fruit production due to pruning activity. I would say that I enhanced it. I pruned some about every year, one heavy year, one light year. It is also true that my trees were older and well established when I got them (moved in). So, perhaps a younger tree will behave differently??
Let's see what others say too...but I don't you will see any drop off in fruit production due to your pruning this winter.
Ahhh... gotchya. I prune to some extent every single year.
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letemgrow
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You’re such a bigot!!!
What’s better than a money tree? Trees can identify however they feel like.
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northcedar
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Why just pears and not apples? Are you thinking because of the growth structure? I did a tiny 14" apple last year as an experiment. It blasted out of the tube. Window screened it inside the tube. Was pleased enough I did 10 more apples n pears this year, same method.
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Yeah I was thinking just because my apples get alot more branch growth quickly and they have branches when I get them that I'd rather not prune off to make them fit in tubes. Pears grow more vertical and suited well for tube. I'm not saying I'm right, this is just my thought process. I prolly try some apples next year and see how they do.