Apple tree help

[Muddy42]

On 30/04/2025 at 07:48, slack ma girdle said:

I would start with blossom wilt, but check the curled leaves to see if anything in living there.

You will need to remove all infected growth, cutting back to healthy wood. This material either needs to be burnt or taken away from site.

I've had good success with a winter spray of Jays fluid diluted 50/50 with water.

50:50 sounds strong to me. Ive not used jays fluid on trees, but its pungent!

 

Ive used general purpose insecticide/fungacide with great success on a few sick trees.

 

Also in this weather, I would also feed and water the tree.

[Rustington]

On 14/05/2025 at 09:31, Muddy42 said:

50:50 sounds strong to me. Ive not used jays fluid on trees, but its pungent!

 

Ive used general purpose insecticide/fungacide with great success on a few sick trees.

 

Also in this weather, I would also feed and water the tree.

Been feeding and watering, but it’s a very poorly tree.

Blossom wilt has very much taken over the whole tree.

[sime42]

I had a similar issue with one of our trees. I brutally cut every last bit of infected wood off over a couple of years. This year it looks to be okay so far.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 15 by sime42
links to a couple of previous threads on the subject. There's probably others I missed on here.

[Peasgood]

Jeyes fluid and winter wash tar oil are pretty much the same thing and both frowned upon these days. Either will burn any vegetation it contacts and best done in winter if you are determined to do it at all.

Having looked at the pic properly I'd say it needs a good pruning and is still suffering from the effects of woolly aphid.

[Rustington]

18 minutes ago, Peasgood said:

Jeyes fluid and winter wash tar oil are pretty much the same thing and both frowned upon these days. Either will burn any vegetation it contacts and best done in winter if you are determined to do it at all.

Having looked at the pic properly I'd say it needs a good pruning and is still suffering from the effects of woolly aphid.

It has some woolly aphids but I don’t think they are not the cause, more a product of.

 

[Rustington]

I’ve cut back what I can and in doing so I found a few of these…….