WTNUT
5 year old buck +
It has been about 2 weeks since I first removed shoot blight strikes. It has spread in one orchard fairly aggressively and seems no worse in the other two. If it started with Blossom Strikes, I do not understand how taking out stem damage would help until all of the blossom bacteria turned to shoot damage which could then be removed. Shockingly I am going to attach some significant canker photos (let me know if you do not think it is cankers). I have never seen the first signs of FB on these apples in prior years - only on one pear tree. But, I can't believe this years strikes lead to these cankers. Your thoughts are appreciated. I am really wondering if I can find all the cankers come winter and apply a copper paste like in the video someone shared. It seemed to work in the video but WOW IS IT GOING TO BE TOUGH TO GET ALL THE CANKERS!!!!!