Renae.....Should I spray?
ladybug A 9a Houston area
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Apple tree has apples and I was not ready... should I spray them?
Comments (6)I would go ahead and start a spraying schedule. You may have some pests already, but you'll certainly cut down the numbers enough to have some nice apples. We planted a Granny Smith last year as well, and this year it surprised us by being covered in blossoms. After we planted we found out that they are not recommended for zone 5 (long ripening time), but I figured the apples don't have to be totally ripe for pie!...See MoreI sprayed my grapevines with Scotts weed and feed. Do I need 2 destroy
Comments (3)The granular weed and feed is a foliar herbicide...to work, the granules need to remain in contact with the leaf they are stuck to for 24hrs or more. Weed and feed on the rootzone isn't an issue. If there are granules stuck to the leaves, hosing them off shortly after (<12 hrs) you realized your mistake would also work....See MoreI Would Like to Grow More Fruit, But I do Not Want To Spray
Comments (6)Yes, like fruitnut mentioned, also add paw paws, raspberries, che, maybe asian pears. You might be get some edible fruit from your cocktail tree the first few years but then disease will become overpowering. My in laws are growing peaches in canton, ga. They got good peaches last year for a first crop no spray but eventually the tree will lose out. I think peach/plum would be best and I'd cut the other varieties off, apricots are very difficult in the east and nectarines more problems than a peach in the east. apricot will be a laggard on that tree compared to fruit cocktails i've seen here in CA. Usually the plum takes over if not managed....See MoreWell, I can no longer say I'm "no-spray".....
Comments (15)lplantagenet -- Yes, this year some roses were looking rather rougher than usual, hence my decision to intervene somewhat. Again, part of that was that I didn't get to do post-flush pruning last year, and things were growing everywhere. Now that I've cut back quite a few roses, they can sort of "reset" and grow anew. Before I hit them with the spray yesterday, new growth was already getting dusty, and I didn't want that carrying through any further. jerijen -- I hear you about toxic side-effects from some other fungicides, and that's why I won't use them. Normally, I don't mind some roses going naked after the first flush, because what I've come to observe is that their first set of leaves don't seem "built" to handle Summer conditions here -- they seem more "built" to handle the cooler temperatures of leaf-out time in April. But this year, bad foliage was coinciding with the first flush, at which point I felt it was too late to do anything, since anything sprayed would get all over the blooms. I felt the need to do something, since powdery mildew had run rather rampant. It wasn't about "perfection" so much as it was about keeping things in check -- a little bit here and there I can tolerate, but not great swaths of it. So far today, I don't see burned foliage, but I do see a sharp reduction in the white dusting. I'm guessing that at the moment, it's simply smothered rather than actually killed. We'll see how things look after the sporadic rain forecast for the next few days. :-) ~Christopher...See Moreladybug A 9a Houston area
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