Dear Neil: My husband really likes purple plum trees, but a neighbor ... is probably five to six years before peach tree borers and bacterial stem canker invade and kill them.

But, as apple trees also need a similar chilling period ... To reduce the risk of silver leaf disease and bacterial canker, plum, damsons and gages should only be lightly pruned in summer, both ...

Dear Neil: What is wrong with my flowering plum tree? It was planted in ... plums is five or six years before borers or bacterial canker kills the trees. They are so pretty, but so short-lived.

Established plum trees are often pruned in mid-summer to ... including from the bacterial canker organism. As one of the most affordable tree species that won't break the bank, persimmon trees ...

DEAR NEIL: This happened to my Mexican plum last ... Hypoxylon canker that tells us that the spores are rather omnipresent in wooded areas and that it’s almost impossible to keep trees from ...

Fire blight is a bacterial ... to the tree. The affected areas look as if they were burned by fire. The infection of shoots may progress down a small branch and start a dark, sunken canker in ...

Q: I missed pruning my cherry tree when it was dormant, and now it’s in full bloom. Is it too late to prune? A: No, it is not too late to prune your cherry tree this year in fact you may have ...

Droplets of bacterial ooze will appear on the canker surfaces of previously infected trees. The bacteria are spread to blooms, foliage, and twigs by insects (honeybees, ants and beetles ...

Palm Beach County homeowners whose healthy fruit trees were destroyed during the state's failed effort to stop citrus canker should ... for the fruit-blemishing bacterial disease.

Canker bacteria absorbs into moisture on infected trees and can be carried by the wind to another host, he said. Other trees within Callery-Judge could have been exposed but not yet become ...

Fast-moving bacterial infection Citrus canker bacteria invade the leaves and spread rapidly throughout the tree. The disease affects only certain types of citrus trees and is not harmful to humans ...