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Subject: Honeyberry YES or NO? Replies: 26
Posted By: LeVin Views: 615
 
Rabbits tried to trim my honeyberry bushes to the ground in the winter, but they came back nicely. They will get protection in the future. They seem to grow best when the weather is still relatively cool and mine stops growing once the heat starts. The flowers aren't decorative per say, but they are daint and pretty enough. I wont get any berries this year, since all the flowering branches were eaten by rabbits, but the berries were tart and with good flavors from what I remember last year. If I decide to plant more than the 3 bushes I have, I may try to plant them in areas that gets sun early in the season, but becomes shades during summer when the trees leaf out fully.

Subject: New fig tree grower looking for some help. Replies: 6
Posted By: LeVin Views: 260
 
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Originally Posted by jdsfrance
Hi LEvin,
Have you spread a chemical around ? Weeding chem ? paint ?
Those spots look like chemical burn, and not rust. So just let those leaves be as they are helping the tree.


No, there hasn't been any chemicals sprayed on my property in the past year, no paint, no weedkillers, nothing. I can't say much about my neighbors. I know for a fact that the property across the street is contracted with landscaping company that comes around every few weeks to spray whatever the hell it is they want to be surrounded with, but I don't think they've been around last month or so at least. The spots are on ungoing issue still.

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Originally Posted by bahamadan
That looks similar to what I saw on the leaves of some of mine when I bought it, but I haven't noticed it spreading to new growth just affecting older leaves that eventually get yellow and fall off. Slightly off topic but is that a mango or peach/cherry in the background of your first photo?


I'm afraid the spots on the O'Rourke tree does indeed spread. I think as soon as the heat subsides some, I'll spray copper in pretty diluted concentration and put the plant in shade. I've moved the LSU Purple to a different location, so let's see if I can isolate this. The tree in the background is a peach tree that I sprouted from a peach pit. I'm just having a go to see what comes out of it.

Subject: New fig tree grower looking for some help. Replies: 6
Posted By: LeVin Views: 260
 
I thought the information I entered in my profile might show up, I guess not. I'm located in northern NJ, zone 7A. I have an attached garage that's unheated, and that is where I'll move the potted plants to. I am little more concerned with the air-layered one as it'll only have had little more than 2 months of growth period and perhaps not as hardy.

Subject: New fig tree grower looking for some help. Replies: 6
Posted By: LeVin Views: 260
 
Hi, I've been lurking for some time now, enjoying browsing content of photos, and I would like to borrow some of the great know-how and information of the community.

I ordered two trees this spring, and the O'Rourke arrived with what looked like rust spots on its leaves. I spotted the tree, hoping that careful watering and growing would keep the disease in check until it went dormant and I could treat it with some copper sprays. Unfortunately, as you can see from the photos below, it really hasn't worked.

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I've been removing the worst of effected leaves, but the spots just keeps spreading to the next set. Now it's spread to the LSU Purple, which, in retrospect, I probably should have moved somewhere else. I was just focused on keeping them away from my in-ground Chicago Hardy trees.

Would it be a good idea to spray the trees with some copper spray now? If I have to remove the effected leaves and do a spray regimen to keep the disease in check, I would have to remove quite a bit of foliage from the O'Rourke, and I'm bit worried about that.


I also have a question regarding over-wintering a new air-layered tree.

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I experimented with an odd branch from one of my Chicago Hardy, and it appears to have worked fairly well. Does anyone see problem with overwintering the tree in a furnished basement that'll probably stay 55~65 degrees during the winter months?

Thank you in advance for any input you'd like to share with me. Always appreciated.

Subject: July 12th Nyack Street Fair Selling Fig Trees Replies: 14
Posted By: LeVin Views: 500
 
That's few minutes from where I live. I'll try to swing around unless parking frustrates me like it usually does.