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Marches
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Pear tree leaf disease? (includes picture)There's some leaves with parts of them turning black on my tree as if they were burnt paper - what is it? Is it just where some insect has been chewing them or is it diseased.
I've attached a picture, sorry it isn't very good but the camera on my phone is rather poor.
Thanks
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tahir
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Pear blight by the sound of it, not serious
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Marches
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Pear blight by the sound of it, not serious |
I haven't heard of that, it isn't the same as the dreaded fire blight is it? It's been like this for about two months and I haven't noticed it spreading much.
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yummersetter
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The early leaves seem to get clobbered by all sorts of things but it rarely makes a lot of difference in the long run. Yours in the picture looks like the best ones on some of my trees. As long as the fruit's OK and the tree's growing, I'm happy.
I used to worry when early mildew would turn whole new shoots dry and brown that it was fireblight, and on my first pear tree I nearly panicked and was going to put it on the bonfire - it's twenty ft tall now and gives me about a hundred delicious Comice pears a year.
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Marches
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The early leaves seem to get clobbered by all sorts of things but it rarely makes a lot of difference in the long run. Yours in the picture looks like the best ones on some of my trees. As long as the fruit's OK and the tree's growing, I'm happy.
I used to worry when early mildew would turn whole new shoots dry and brown that it was fireblight, and on my first pear tree I nearly panicked and was going to put it on the bonfire - it's twenty ft tall now and gives me about a hundred delicious Comice pears a year. |