Now What?!?!

[Smiles Jr.]

Our apple trees are looking pretty bad. I have sprayed and sprayed and sprayed and now my trees look very bad. I have followed very closely the instructions for the fruit tree spray I used. Once in February with dormant oil, once in April, May, and June with fruit tree spray that contains Captan. The apples were looking pretty good until about a month ago and now I'm afraid there will be no harvest this year. Bummer. I first noticed a few yellow spots on the leaves about 3 weeks ago and now the leaves are completely covered with the spots. Oh yeah, I also sprayed with sulfur when I first noticed the spots. The sulfur would be for bugs but the leaf spots look like a disease. Any ideas out there?

 

[Nyboy]

Look up apple ceder rust I have it does not effect fruit

 

[so lucky]

Nyboy do you treat it?

 

[Nyboy]

You can there are sprays, have to be started early in season. I don't I am lazy, if it effected fruit would be more on top of.

 

[journey11]

I see a beetle in one of the pics. I think it is probably beetle damage. In numbers, they can really do a number on your fruit trees. I am seeing a lot of June-bugs in our fruit trees right now. Go out at night with a flashlight and see how many there are.

Good for you keeping up with your spraying regimen. I need to be more faithful. As it is, I am finding that you can't get anything out of most fruit trees around here without it.

ETA... Cedar apple rust pics look spot on actually. http://hort.uwex.edu/articles/cedar-apple-rust/ I think the beetles need dealt with too though. What do you think?

 

[Smiles Jr.]

@Nyboy - yep, it looks like apple cedar rust but all the apples are falling off.

@journey11 - thanks. I read the article and it looks like maybe my apple harvest is doomed for this year. I guess this is really, really, really the school of hard knocks.

 

[Nyboy]

Sorry I had a tree full of peaches the branches where bending. I could not wait till they where ripe. Went to pick 1 whole tree was stripped not 1 peach left.

 

[Nyboy]

Look up apple ceder rust I have it does not effect fruit

apple cedar is prefect example of my dyslexia it is not always about spelling cedar apple

 

[Nyboy]

@majorcatfish used to have a orchard, he is great ID problems with fruit trees

 

[majorcatfish]

yup thats apple cedar rust. either you or somebody near by has eastern red cedars.
red cedars

if you have the cedars look for this, that is a old spore pod for the rust

this is what the rust looks like in full bloom in spring......

no cure for cedar rust except removing the cedars, and still the leaves of the apple tree can still be a host for the rust for years.
have to break the cycle some how.. it took years but my lonely pippin tree does not have it anymore, but since i do not keep up on it, it's there just for the deer to eat...