Small black flies on my peach tree leaves
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Comments (2)Kathy, Today I visited someone in PA who has the same issue on one peach tree. I was told it was peach leaf curl. You can read about it on the Clemson site. ~james Here is a link that might be useful: Clemson Peach Diseases...See MoreSick Small Deformed Leaves on my Fig Trees?
Comments (11)Hi Jajada, your pictures show FMV, classic case is mottled leaves that are raised like bubbles, plant leaves in what appears to be a lack of chlorophyll, badly deformed looking leaves,or tiny darker green spots observed with a light from under leaf . You can click the link i posted last season. I showed FMV mild case and more severe case in a few of my plants. I see your in CA and the FMV can be transmitted thru some bugs and thru pruning shears also from one plant to another. FMV is a curable virus in plants but much much to costly for the average gardener, fig plants can be easily reinfected by certain bugs that will transmit it . Many fig plants can deal with it as they get larger a few such as ischia black are most affected and stunted by it as it can affect the plants cells from multiplying therfore stunting it. Its been my experience that once a plant has it its there for good although it may seem gone its there and can show itself anytime. FMV may not show in all limbs of a plant as its a very slow moving virus, its slow enough that in a lab new emerging shoots are cut and then sterilized and use of a microscope and scalpel to the extract the meristem by peeling back the outer shell consisiting of many tiny leaves within it eventually coming to the meristem which is an opague color very small and hard to see and propagate useing certain types of medium are used in a complete sterile setting. Its very costly to do as stated properly but that part of the plant has the highest probability of not yet being infected and contains all whats needed to start a new plant. FmV is in tobacco and potato crops called by different intials but basically is the same type of virus. How they deal with it im not sure as i have only read about fig plants mostly. Martin Here is a link that might be useful: http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3316723&highlight=mosaic...See Moreblack flies on my tomatoes?
Comments (5)Just wanted to update: I sprayed with soap. And i really coated top and bottom of every leaf, lying down under my tomatoes to get the undersides of leaves. And it worked! I came back from my parents house for a week and every tomato that was alive when I left is thriving now. The soap worked. I was lucky that the temp dropped and it rained. And my house sitter watered the tomatoes once during the week. So if they were weak from the stress of aphids, they weren't stressed by heat or lack of water while I as gone. Let's hear it for soap! And thanks for the id and advice!...See MoreSick peach tree, pale curled leaves
Comments (10)Copper is the only effective fungicide for peach leaf curl that I have ever found. Horticultural oil would be for controlling insects. It smothers them. It does not work for fungal diseases. It is likely that your peach trees are simply growing old. Peaches and nectarines are very short lived and the average lifespan is 15-20 years. It is getting time to replace them. I like to plant a new peach tree when the old one is about 12 years old so that the new one will be in production about the time I remove the old one. Rosefolly...See MoreThe Logician LLC
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