HoosierHunter07
A good 3 year old buck
Are you saying you were able to add to a previous order and avoid paying double shipping? Or am I misunderstanding your post?
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Bluehill 2025
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That's what I did just send Ryan a message from the web page with my order # and he added it.
Hoytvectrix
5 year old buck +
Yes. I called and spoke with Ryan. I had to place a second order for pick-up with a note saying to combine it with my first order that is being shipped.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
In a way, it's kind of a bummer when we run out of room for more fruit trees!! It's work (but fun work) to plant, cage, prune & train them, but it's really cool to get those first crops of apples, crabs, pears, persimmons .... or whatever.
Our biggest problem in the early years after planting has been bugs / caterpillars eating the leaves off. Gotta spray for those or trees are toast. We haven't had any real disease problems, thank God!! DR tree varieties.
PatinPA
5 year old buck +
This is my first year with any bug problems and weirdly they only attacked certain trees. Other nearby trees were completely untouched.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
I remember you saying in another post that some of your trees were untouched. That's a good thing, I guess. Some of our varieties don't seem to get clobbered either, but I made no notes on which ones insects didn't seem to bother. I ought to document those for future reference.
Derek Reese 29
5 year old buck +
My Big 10 from Blue Hill got smacked by Japanese beetles this summer around the 4th of July but I hit it with some Sevin and it bounced back and had some decent growth. I had the same experience where some trees got hammered while others about 20’ away in all directions were untouched. There was no kinda correlation (like closer to the woods or early bearing) just very random.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Beetles mating in your 2nd pic is an ugly sight, isn't it?? More pests for the following year. Japs and some caterpillars are our biggest problems.
I think it was either Appleman or maybe Professor Kent on here (haven't seen either of them posting for some time) that said once your trees get some size to them, they can better withstand insect attacks. I remember someone said that on here, just can't remember exactly who. The young trees are the most vulnerable due to their smaller canopy getting clobbered = not enough photosynthesis = weak or dying fruit trees.
Sevin is what we use at camp too, Derek. Big jugs of concentrate for saving $$$.
I think it was either Appleman or maybe Professor Kent on here (haven't seen either of them posting for some time) that said once your trees get some size to them, they can better withstand insect attacks. I remember someone said that on here, just can't remember exactly who. The young trees are the most vulnerable due to their smaller canopy getting clobbered = not enough photosynthesis = weak or dying fruit trees.
Sevin is what we use at camp too, Derek. Big jugs of concentrate for saving $$$.
Derek Reese 29
5 year old buck +
Yeah hate it still waiting for the full force of lantern flies to hit too..found a few this year but remarkably not on my fruit trees..loved those 2 guys you mentioned above, Professor Kent’s YouTube videos are legendary and super helpful for a newbie like me…got the concentrated Sevin and a spray bottle or a 2 gallon pump sprayer.definitely the economical way to go
RGrizzzz
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I wouldn't worry too much about spotted lantern flies. They barely bothered the 12+ fruit trees I have in my yard. They were all over tree of heaven, and a little bit on maples. There's a receding wood line behind the neighbors on the other side of the street. Between treatment and pressure from SLF, a lot of the TOH went away, and the SLF population cratered. SLF are easy to kill. Sevin, bifenthrin, etc. hammers them.
Derek Reese 29
5 year old buck +
Good to know they aren’t hard to kill with spray ..I got my toddlers on patrol to stomp them when they found them in the yard this summer. The only large concentration I found was in some kind of vine that was climbing and killing a big maple that had fallen into my plot. It was COVERED. Now if only they would eat invasive honeysuckle…
bigboreblr
5 year old buck +
Im guessing spotted latern fly's probably get killed with malathion too. Not very high on the nasty level for pesticides like some others are.
Get a extension wand for your sprayer. Could esily reach up 10-12ft up the tree with it. I went semi-pro with a backpack sprayer and a milwaukee battery powered supplied air mask.
Lower hudson valley has a good amount of those latern flys. I only saw 1 at home this summer hiding under my car ramps. Place 20 minutes away i fish has some there. More of an issue on the west side of the hudson river, I am on the east side.
Someone on here had their apple tree girdled by the window screen protectors. Was going to remove them, but maybe Ill keep them around for the latern flys. Got about a dozen of my 40ish trees not covered and no problems with them either.
Get a extension wand for your sprayer. Could esily reach up 10-12ft up the tree with it. I went semi-pro with a backpack sprayer and a milwaukee battery powered supplied air mask.
Lower hudson valley has a good amount of those latern flys. I only saw 1 at home this summer hiding under my car ramps. Place 20 minutes away i fish has some there. More of an issue on the west side of the hudson river, I am on the east side.
Someone on here had their apple tree girdled by the window screen protectors. Was going to remove them, but maybe Ill keep them around for the latern flys. Got about a dozen of my 40ish trees not covered and no problems with them either.
