Sunday, December 4, 2011

Copper Fungicidal for the Stone Fruit Trees & Pruning

Today we applied some copper fungicide to all our stone fruit trees. We did this some time ago to the peach trees and, while it did not completely cure their leaf curl, they did much better.


We mixed about 15 tablespoons of Liqui-Cop Copper Fungicidal Garden Spray into a bucket with 3 gallons of water and applied it thoroughly to all the stone fruit trees in the back, side, and front yard. 


As  an experiment, we also applied it to the fig trees (sparsely) to some of the leafs of tangerine tree by the house (mostly lower leafs that were a little curled).


For future reference, it seems that 2 gallons of water would have been enough. Also, in the past we used 15 teaspoons, today we used tablespoons by mistake. Let us see how it goes.


We also took the opportunity and pruned the large fig tree in the back yard and the one by the transformer.