All About Apples | Backyard Orchardist - Apple Growing Tips, Choosing Varieties to Grow. All About Apples | Backyard Orchardist - Choosing Varieties to Grow. Ciscoe's To-do List: Claylike spray for apple maggots is safe for the environment. Frustrate mademoiselle fruit fly It's bad enough to bite into an apple and see half a caterpillar smiling back at you and realize that you just bisected a coddling moth, but it's way worse to be greeted by the smiling faces of a bunch of half maggots and realize that you just bit into larvae of the apple fruit fly. The apple maggot fruit fly is a real pain (besides tasting like gradoo) because the bacteria from the maggot cause the apple to rot. Fortunately there is a product that repels the apple maggot. Surround, available at www.gardensalive.com, is a kaolin clay that is safe for humans and safe for the environment. When the female apple maggot lands on an apple covered with the clay, she doesn't stay long enough to lay her eggs because the clay sticks to her wings, legs and mouthparts, causing her to get the heck out of there.
Don't be afraid to prune Japanese maples Many of us are afraid to prune our Japanese laceleaf maples because we don't want to harm our valuable trees. All About Apples | Apple News. Training and Pruning Apple Trees - Virginia Cooperative Extension. Introduction Proper training and pruning of trees is a major component of a profitable apple orchard operation. Successful pruning is an art based upon scientific principles of tree growth and physiology and an experienced understanding of tree response to various pruning cuts and practices. Each tree is an individual and should be treated accordingly. Varieties differ in growth characteristics and response to pruning cuts, rootstocks, soil, and growing conditions. There are several training systems for apple. Objectives of Training and Pruning The objectives of tree training and pruning are to develop and maintain small, conical shaped (Christmas tree shape) trees that are capable of early production of large crops of high quality fruit.
Maintaining suitable vigor of an apple tree is necessary to develop a balance between reproductive and vegetative growth throughout the life of the tree. Apple Tree Growth and Physiology Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3. Figure 4. Figure 5. Figure 6. Extension Entomology | Home | Entomology | entomology department | department of entomology | Purdue | Purdue University | Purdue Entomology | Purdue University Entomology | insects | bugs | insect identification | indiana entomology | entomology museum |
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