Here is a photo.

Thank you very much nmfruit! I am very happy to hear that! :-) Can’t wait for them to wake up.

I have a question about fruit tree spray. Should I spray copper and bug spray on apple, pear and peach trees now or later after the blossoms? There were spots on apples and pears last year. Long story short, the small orchard came with the property we purchased 2 years ago, no one has cared for it for a few years. We finally pruned them this spring, and I have been adding on more fruit trees since last year. Asian pear, Fuji apple, cherry, jujube, hawthorns. Will plant 2 Apricot, Canadian White Blenheim and Russian persimmon ( Nikita’s gift) today. The persimmon trees I planted last year in zone 6a look dead. I am going to wait for another month before I pull them out. Should I pull a small cherry tree out after the blossom? I planted it in a rose bed last year.

Please see the spots on apple. What’s the best spray for it? How often do I need to spray?

Having troubles posting photos......will try again later.

For the most part, spraying fruit trees is done during dormancy....late winter. There are some diseases that require treatement later in the season, like fireblight or scab, as they are weather induced. But without photos, no idea of what's happening or if treatable and with what.

Thanks gardengal. Oh I didn’t know, I missed the chance to spray. I will try to post photos on my laptop later. For some reason I can’t post photos on phone today. Will be back. Heading out to plant more fruit trees.

Here are the apples with spots, not sure what's wrong with them.....what kind of spray do I need? I know I missed the spray time by a couple months, is there anything I could do? Thanks

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You have fly speck and sooty blotch it looks like. Fortunately they are just cosmetic you don’t really need to spray for that unless you’re selling apples. You can always clean it off before you eat if it bothers you for some reason.

Thanks meilkeeatplants! I don’t sell any fruits. I shared the fruits with a couple renters on the property last year. They didn’t mind the spots on the apples. I had thousands of pears but I didn’t get any. not even one, not sure what kind of animals got them. It would be nice if I could bring spotless apples to work and share with the city folks, I know they won’t like the spots.......

Wow, some hungry animals you got. Squirrels love pears but other mammals will eat them too. Adopting a "barn cat" from a local shelter can help with smaller mammals like squirrels. Some people make baffles to put on the trunks to keep animals from climbing the tree (assuming the tree can't be reached from a fence or another tree.

Thanks for the tips! I will look into tree baffles. There are a lot of wild cats in the area. One of the neighbors 5-6 acres away feeds them, so there are an army of cats over there. and some of them passing by my property often. I think there is one living underneath my garden shed just by looking at the footprints in the snow. I have a groundhog den but they can’t climb.

If you set up a feeding station and a shelter for the ferals they will hang around your place more. I’m assuming you have no dogs or cats going outside that might make for confrontations

Thanks for the idea. But I don't want cats to hang around there much, I am a rose gardener, I have a lot of roses, and plant more each year. Cat's pee would kill my roses, and make the whole yard smell bad.....it supposed to be fragrant with hundreds of roses. ;-)