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Asian pear tree --- fire bright?

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JS

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Apr 18, 2009, 7:43:39 PM4/18/09
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Could somebody take a look at the the problem I have with my Asian pear tree
I have on my backyard.  The tree is about 3 yrs old. It sets  small fruits at the moment
but seeing this kind of problem is really scare me.   If it is indeed the fire bright issue,
how would I go about solving the problem?  I live in Dallas, TX area.
 
Here are the three  photos I took this morning:
 
 
 
Thanks in advance,
 
 
JIMMY
 
 
 

Steve Peek

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Apr 19, 2009, 11:12:59 AM4/19/09
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It looks like fire blight to me. It's at least the same problem that took out my French pear 2 years ago. It doesn't seem to affect the tree until it blooms and then it's devastating. I tried every fungal treatment I could find (organic & otherwise) and nothing worked. The tree was completely dead within a month. All I can say is I'm sorry & wish you good luck.
Steve

Robert Lewis

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Apr 20, 2009, 8:30:32 AM4/20/09
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Yep, looks like fire blight to me.  The "cure" is to remove any and all affected branches/limbs, washing your cutting blade with alcohol between each cut so as to not spread the bad stuff.  It can be pretty rough.  We've about given up on apple trees because of it.  Yeah, I know there are blight resistant varieties, but we were tired of apples trees anyway.
 
 Robert in the hills of Tennessee
 
 

JS

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Apr 20, 2009, 10:15:25 PM4/20/09
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Does this chemical do it?

http://www.planetnatural.com/site/liquid-copper-fungicide.html

Please advise,


JIMMY

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> Fire blight sprays (such as streptomycin or copper) must be used annually
> during
> bloom on both commercial and home plantings.
>
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:30:13 -0500, "JS" <x...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi All,

sherwin dubren

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Apr 23, 2009, 2:34:43 AM4/23/09
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I concur with others that it looks like fire blight. There are many
web sites that go into more details of how to control it. You could
check out the following:

http://www.caf.wvu.edu/kearneysville/disease_descriptions/omblight.html

I know people who were able to save their pear trees with pruning.

I'm curious if this tree is on standard rootstock, or a dwarfing
rootstock, and if so, which variety of rootstock. Some rootstocks
are more susceptible to fire blight, than others.


Sherwin

dr-...@wi.rr.com

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Apr 25, 2009, 11:40:42 AM4/25/09
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yes. that will do.
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