RE: Gumming of Almonds
wim
mustnīt prune the almonds in autumn.
If you must prunr them, do so in spring as they are flowering or after.
do it now and they may get infected by fungii or silver leaf disease.
francisco
ps.
the practice were I live is to thin the branches in bloom to regulate the
fruiting, lest they bear fruit year in year out.
> > Moira
> > The gum is clear, so I am lucky. I will put some compost around the
trees
> > and will cut off the worst branches.
>
> Wim
> If the gummosis is non-infectious as appears likely, I cannot see the
> need to cut off the affected branches. Unnecesary mutilation of trees is
> always something to avoid. Not only because it very often spoils the
> appearence, but because, like any wounding of a living thing, it gives
> their systems a shock and lays them open to disease. I would expect
> anyhow that the fairly large wounds made by cutting off whole branches
> would simply lead to bigger and better ooozes of gum!
>
> Moira
>
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> Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
> Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
> Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate
>
