Thanks, I like my little slice of heaven. I knew where they were, they have been growing for a few years now, and I decided to leave them for the birds. There is no mistaking them, chokecherry trees, with a nasty looking disease to them. Seeing as how stone fruit have a co-morbidity with disease, I figured I would ask you your opinions of what might be going on. Also, is there a bacterial spot disease that affects both apple trees and peach trees, or apple, peach and chokecherry? You can see in the above photo of the apple tree (last 2 pics of first post) that the leaves on it don't look quite right either, but certainly not to the level of the peach. Would peach leaf curl have any effect on an apple tree? I took better pictures that weren't blury or close up, but the three mentioned diseases all seem like they have similar symptoms, and last year there was no noticable leafhopper activity. Curious. Chokecherry...

Well, tonight I see a few leaves on the other 2 mature trees that look the same. Don't see it on any of the new trees, which are 40-50 yards away. I have about 2-3 weeks until the harvest on the Hale Haven and unknown white, and about 5+ weeks until Encore is done. Since there is nothing to do now for the bac spot, I will await the harvest, see how bad the infection gets, see how my first year with the Monterrey Fungus Fighter does with the brown rot (picked about 2/3 of my Raritan Rose tonight, about a half bushel of usable fruit - it is at a different property, and no brown rot to be seen despite the rain and humidity most of the summer!!) How well does the copper spray work for preventing an outbreak next year on trees that were infected this year? Or is it terminal? I assume all my new stone fruit trees should get the dormant copper sprays this off season even if there is no sign of infection on them, given the infection nearby?

Thanks. I'll forward the comments and my copper and neem oil the next time they visit. I doubt I can convince them to squish the abundance of those red "balls". Really, they are scale? Some are the size of grapes, the majority are large pea sized. Anyone got any technical links to the type of scale this is? The UCDavis IPM site doesn't have anything like it that I could find. The closest by picture (in egg form) is European fruit lecanium I guess I'm lucky to only have encountered smaller soft brown scale.

there is a fruit forum ... never saw the hardcore there.. in this forum .. and spraying fruit trees is outside our expertise ... it has transplant shock ... so its sacrificing a few leaves .. so what ... NEVER amend a planting hole ... you didnt dig a very wide hole .... does that mean the hole you dug was barely as big as the pot..??? .. and you just shoved the potting media into the clay ... it has fruit.. and you just planted it this march??? .. usually takes my fruit trees a few years to fruit... but you bought bigger than i usually do ... sorry but one leaf is not sufficient for a disease diagnosis ... relax ... and do double check with the fruit peeps ... ken ps: 6 stakes.. eh???