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Watch closely Apples & Pears · Disease

Apple scab

Affects: Apple Pear

Apple scab - photo 1
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Apple scab - photo 3
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Apple scab - photo 4
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Symptoms

Olive-green to black velvety spots on leaves and fruit; bad cases drop leaves and crack the fruit skin.

When it shows up

Wet spring weather during and after bloom.

Apr May Jun

Treatment

Apply a sulfur or copper fungicide on a spring schedule from bud break through early summer.

Prevention

Rake and destroy fallen leaves, prune for airflow, and plant scab-resistant varieties like Liberty.

What you need

The same products HomesteadSync recommends in the app for this problem.

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