A friend of mine wanted to plant 12-15 trees ( disease resistant variety ) he said. Of course they still get diseases as we know. They would be strictly for wildlife purpose only. I have about 45 trees and I told him if he was going to purchase some then he should spray them every so often throughout the season. I told him roughly about 12x a year. He went on to say I’m nuts and they will just be for deer. I planted my trees 6 years ago and still got the cages up. My question is, have anyone ever just planted, cage and never done anything else and the tree goes on to be a good producer say around year 7? I use the basic Imidan, Captan mix that’s on the site and always worked well. I just hate for my friend to purchase the trees if he is going to neglect them and they won’t turn out to be much. Maybe I’m wrong by telling him this. What are people’s experiences?