When the pc season is over just yank the infected fruits off. Ya, you thin the next generation some. I sprayed today, with the heat thats coming that should be the end of pc. Just not sure if I should do another cover spray or not.

Unreal how fast things are moving this spring! apples are really sizing fast.

The idea of a trap tree is the other trees have a repellant on it and/or the trap tree is especially tasty, and the trap tree then gets all the bugs. You need to kill all the bugs on your trap tree or it will backfire by giving you a bigger crop next year. This latter reason is why I don't use trap trees, I may forget to pick off the fruits or get some too late. That said there still is some logic in it. I have some trees that seem much more or less susceptible to various bugs. For example I have a St. John peach right next to a Silver Logan; the former has almost no OFM damage on it now and on the Silver Logan about a third of the thinned fruits had OFM damage. The St. John peaches are much harder, they are like rocks compared to the soft Silver Logans. They also have a different kind of fuzz on them. The St. John will get later OFM damage but early on they are clearly more resistant. Anyway, in effect the Silver Logan is my unintentional "trap tree" and I look over the peaches on it very carefully for damage and pull off any infected fruits I can find. For the apples it is the uphill trees on my hill that get it by far the worst, and I check them much more carefully for bitten fruits.

Scott