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I've got 5 paw-paws that are all over 5 years old. Appear to be very healthy....but just no fruit. 2 of them had fruit, one year. That's been it. I have a bunch of other fruit trees that I spray regularly with various fungicide/insecticide blends. I hit the PawPaws as well. Does anyone...

I'd keep the Captan in your mix and add Sovran or other fungicides intermittently. But like Maya says, PHI becomes important from about now-on depending on what specific cultivars you have. Lodi and Transparent, for example, could be ready for harvest in 5 weeks or so depending on where...

In any other fruit trees?

What specific variety of apple?

For what it's worth......I've never had a mouse-girdled tree when I've kept grasses etc away from the trunk. And I've not used screening on the trunks. Ground herbiciding is very effective not only in preventing this but also in getting maximum growth out of your trees each year.

Curious to see your pics. Could be pear psylla (insect) that's getting rolling this time of year. Leaves a black exudate on the leaves and can dramatically weaken or kill the tree, especially young one, if not treated.

FB definitely nasty stuff!! Worth spraying your trees with Steptomycin when at-risk conditions present and especially when FB inoculum is known to be around....like when you've had it!! Stuff isn't expensive and works great. Certain varieties definitely more susceptible to FB.

Prevention and treatment of these kinds of diseases is part of a regular IPM spray program. If you have access to Rally (DMI fungicide), it's pretty potent on PM. But balanced, regular, spray program that includes insecticide, protectant fungicide (like Captan, or others), and a systemic...