Once you identify the fly or bug damaging the blossom and boring holes in the fruit, you can learn how to apply and when to spray fruit trees with organic fungicide, insecticide, copper or dormant oil for a healthy harvest. Read on to learn how! Note...
When should fungicide be applied? Should I spray before or after a rainfall?Randy S. Sanderlin
Once the buds on your cherry trees begin to swell and open, a preventive fungicide spray helpsprotect healthy foliage and developing fruitsfrom the many fungal diseases that can affect cherries. You can continue these fungicide-only sprayings until the blooms drop their petals, a time known aspe...
Citrus farmers sometimes spray water on the fruit trees when a frost is expected. Use equations...Question:Citrus farmers sometimes spray water on the fruit trees when a frost is expected. Use equations to explain why.Phase Change:A phase change is the...
groundwater in minerally-based soils. Typically, they don’t break down in the soil in the same way as other products. This is why you should always be incredibly careful about where you apply the spray. Only spray stems and leaves to limit how much fungicide comes into contact with the...
Due to the increasing concerns about the impact of fungicides on the ecosystem (especially reducing the biodiversity of non-target and beneficial microbes), human health, and fungicide resistance, researchers are exploring new eco-friendly alternative strategies in the management of fungal disease in fo...