Bagging Fruit
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Bagging fruit...double netting?
Comments (8)Wobur: If you want helpful advice, why don't you specify your location? In fact, why doesn't everyone specify location? Is it fear that a salesman will call? Since I don't know where you live, other than zone 7/8 which is pretty general, I can't relate your climate to mine. But I have pretty good luck on apples with plastic sandwich bags. Peaches have been more difficult using the sandwich bags, since earwigs have entered the bags and damaged the peaches even though oriental fruit moth has been kept out. This year I have purchased 300 nylon "footies" used for try-ons in shoe stores, that I will use on some of the peaches. I am also going to try to intercept the earwigs with tangletrap and occasional spraying. It seems to me that fabricating your own bags from netting would involve an awful lot of time-consuming sewing or something of the sort. If you can buy something cheaply off-the-shelf, that sure seems better to me than trying to make bags by hand. The Japanese fruit bags, which I have also tried, involve two different layers with different levels of light transmission. The inner layer allows more light to penetrate so that when the outer layer is removed the fruit can color up. These two layers would be different than using two identical layers of nylon mesh. If you are willing to do the cutting and sewing, you might as well just use one. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA...See Morebagging fruit
Comments (24)Thanks katkin, glad my little tip was helpful. A current update : My main focus here has evolved into growing mango's, bananas and papayas, have given up on tomatoes & other small fruits,..too many pests here for me. However, mango's and papayas have enemies of their own,..mostly concerning the mango's. I am now on the threshold of what looks like the largest harvest of mango's I've ever encountered in my 14 years at this, and from only three trees that have really taken off in the last five years,..the Kent, Vallencia Pride and the Glenn. All bursting with tiny pannicles and fruit. No papayas growing yet tho,..will plant two small trees soon. Since this season has started ( mid Dec ) I have sprayed the mango trees four times for anthracose,..the most ever ! My apple cider vinegar jars are cleaned & ready, will be hung out in another month as I have found that the white flies attack mostly late in the season. An added ingredient i left out, - many people add a drop or two of dishwashing liquid to the apple cider vinegar,..supposed to guarantee their wings get too heavy to fly. However, whether I use the dishwashing liq or not, the results are the same. The Glenn mangos are the ones that are least succeptible to the fruit flies because they are an early season mango, - last one is usually picked by July 1st. The Kent and the Vallencia Pride however, are late season varities,..BOTH those trees will get 2 or 3 jars of vinegar each !!!!! Also I have just purchased a one door small animal trap, mainly to corral the squirrels,...who are notorious mango destroyers. I know there are those out there who love small animals like squirrels,..I will only say that I will try being as humane as possible. The bottom line however, is that squirrels rank right up there with the fruit flies as the the main threats to any mango farmer. Right now keeping my fingers crossed, ..will report back in late July on the eventual outcome. ( smile ) This post was edited by jofus on Sun, Mar 16, 14 at 18:10...See MoreBagging Fruit
Comments (1)I just bagged my last few Keitts with white plastic grocery store bags. Tied them tight. Then it rained hard and water was pooling in the bags so I poked a hole in the bottom So far it has confused and spooked the birds and squirrels...kept them from taking a bite. Old DVDs and CDs might work hung on a mango fruit. The flashing light reflections bother the birds and maybe? squirrels too?...See MoreAnyone bag pawpaw fruit?
Comments (4)If your small tree sets multiple fruit in a cluster, you might want to snip off all but one when still small. I have had squirrels knock down 1", 2", and 3" paw paws leaving them on the ground with a few teeth marks, so as for when to bag them to keep them uninteresting to squirrels, it is your call. For me, I wait until the fruit are maybe half grown before bagging them, or until the squirrels start knocking them down repeatedly. I have used tan colored plastic grocery bags with the loop handles pulled over the fruit branch and tied into a somewhat loose knot. After more than 100 bags enclosing fruit over 2 years, not even one bag was torn up by a critter to reach the fruit. Not by squirrels, possums, raccoons, crows, wasps, woodpeckers, etc. If I only had a few precious fruit to protect and I suspected that coons or possums were around to threaten them, I would probably take it a step further and spray the bag every now and then with some stinky poison like ant and roach aerosol to further dissuade them. If you are eager to see your young tree become a fruit maker, you might want to mulch it with decaying leaves, keep it weed free, fertilize regularly, and keep the soil moist continually....See Morebvbrown_gw
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