Truly strange looking stuff. I've never seen it before.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/29/2013 10:24 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> Fascinating. There are lots of Eastern Red Cedar around here (easily a
> dozen in my back yard) but I've never seen this fungus. But there are no
> apple trees for miles; the coastal climate is not very kind to them. Tina,
> it is probably too late to switch to peaches.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> PESO:
>>
>> It started to rain yesteday afternoon, after we had finished planting 75
>> tomato plants! The rain brings out the cedar rust on all of the cedar
>> trees around here:
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149915885
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149915887
>>
>> The cedar rust sends out spores that infect the apple trees with a fungus.
>> The only cure is to cut down all of the cedar trees within a 4 mile
>> radius. We plan to cut the ones on our farm but will have to spray the
>> apple trees to prevent the fungus from other cedar trees from infecting
>> them :-( There are cedar resistent apple trees, but they aren't totally
>> successful in the face of this much rust!!
>>
>> It's the weirdest looking stuff I've ever seen and I had never seen it
>> before we moved here.
>>
>> C&C and suggestions greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Tina
>>
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