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julbriphillips

Stop spraying?

11 years ago

Hello everyone. So I'm a Triazicide Immunox user for my apricots, peaches, plums and Granny Smith apple trees. Around the time plum curculio was done mutilating my trees I gave up spraying. The few fruits on each tree that didn't get bit (definitely ditching Triazicide for carefully timed spraying a of Surround next year) are now around baseball size, give or take. I have a serious peach scab infection because Immunox & copper didn't control it at all. The Japanese Beetles have come and gone and now I'm left wondering if there's any point in spraying...

My trees are five-seven yrs old and only recently began to bear fruit so this is the first yr I decided to follow a regular spraying schedule. What do you all think? Any reason to keep spraying and if so, what should I spray? Keep up with what I've been doing? I've eaten my stone fruits, except peaches as they're behind in growth due to scab? Apples look awesome. Clean and getting big.