If your plum tree is bleeding sap, it may be affected by canker, or by other forms of fungal or bacterial diseases, like pseudomonas. Several types of borers, like peach tree borers, can infect ...

The jellylike substance oozing from this peach tree is called gummosis and can result from environmental stress, mechanical injury, or disease and insect infestation.(Reader Photo) Question: This ...

We saw die-back in trees coming out of winter. In some cases, it is environmental stress from drought stress and winter ...

We definitely have peach tree borers in our nectarine tree. The trunk is pretty much encircled by the sap oozing just above the ground level. ... For trees with Cytospora cankers, ...

My peach trees struggled this year. ... Pruning too early in the season encourages bacterial canker and could lead to tree death. Adequate fertilization is essential to peach tree success.

Cytospora cankers have formed on this peach tree in Palisade. The best results for suppressing the fungus have come from mixing fungicide with white latex paint and applying it to young trees to ...

By Bethany A. O'Rear Q. My peach trees struggled this year. The fruit set was very sparse, and the fruit that did make was inedible due to disease and bug holes. Can you provide some tips to ...

Fungus killing Western Slope peach trees, ... This hard-to-pronounce fungus causes a disease called cytospora canker, which leaves behind a distinct calling card in orchards.

A small tree with a large canker probably can’t live, but a large tree with a small canker can survive if the fungus is controlled.You can minimize damage from the fungus – and its spread ...

Question: Help me decide if I can keep my 12-year-old Chinaberry tree. I fear it has sooty canker disease because it has some branches dying. But it does not have peeling bark. It is a joy in the ...

Their average life expectancy is probably five to six years before peach tree borers and bacterial stem canker invade and kill them. They’re not trees I have ever chosen to include in my own ...