Author: swright

Tree Fruit Newsletter — May 9, 2025

In this newsletter: Bud Stages Announcement Flower Bud Development at Highmoor Farm McIntosh apples have passed tight cluster and have reached the early stage of pink. Honeycrisp and Gala trees are in the late stage of tight cluster, but king blooms are showing pink. Asian pears are showing some white. European pears were under an […]

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Tree Fruit Newsletter — May 6, 2025

In this newsletter: Bud stages at Highmoor Farm Brown Rot Blossom Blight of Stone Fruit Prohexadione and aggravation of bitter pit in Honeycrisp Thinning Peaches with Acceede SG® Flower Bud Development Flower bud development has been, thankfully, slow this spring.  Honeycrisp apples are still at half-inch green.  McIntosh and Gala are just starting tight cluster. […]

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Tree Fruit Newsletter — April 24, 2025

Bud development has progressed from silver tip to green tip and is probably beyond green tip in southern Maine. This is the traditional time to begin fungicide sprays to prevent apple scab in McIntosh and other highly susceptible varieties. It’s also the time for the copper spray which functions as a micronutrient fertilizer, fungicide and […]

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Tree Fruit Newsletter — April 2, 2025

In this newsletter: Pruning Tips for Cherry Trees Bud Stages and Bud Survival Guest Articles from Cornell Cooperative Extension Pruning Tips for Cherry Trees Cherry trees are usually trained as a multiple leader tree like peach and plum with about 4 leaders per tree. Fully dwarfed sweet cherry trees can be trained as a central […]

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