Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/03

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Cedar Rust
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 17:12:48 -0400
References: <CA+yJO1Au8Gf+zbuqcxE+y9v5iGdgSMr=YY5Hyi_fAGnhRQgjJw@mail.gmail.com> <485D42E6-CD36-44B1-9162-C7A0C2957429@frozenlight.eu>

Don't think so!  No GMO stuff originating here - only what drifts in on the
wind, kind of like the cedar rust!

Tina


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:

> Maybe you need some GM apple trees?
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> ;-)))
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
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> YNWA
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> On Apr 28, 2013, at 11:42 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
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> > PESO:
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> > It started to rain yesteday afternoon, after we had finished planting 75
> > tomato plants!  The rain brings out the cedar rust on all of the cedar
> > trees around here:
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149915885
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> > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149915887
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> > The cedar rust sends out spores that infect the apple trees with a
> fungus.
> > The only cure is to cut down all of the cedar trees within a 4 mile
> > radius.  We plan to cut the ones on our farm but will have to spray the
> > apple trees to prevent the fungus from other cedar trees from infecting
> > them :-(  There are cedar resistent apple trees, but they aren't totally
> > successful in the face of this much rust!!
> >
> > It's the weirdest looking stuff I've ever seen and I had never seen it
> > before we moved here.
> >
> > C&C and suggestions greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Tina
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> > Tina Manley, ASMP
> > www.tinamanley.com
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Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


In reply to: Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMG: Cedar Rust)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] IMG: Cedar Rust)