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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