If your plum tree is bleeding sap, it may be affected by canker, or by other forms of fungal or bacterial diseases, like pseudomonas. Several types of borers, like peach tree borers, can infect ...

Here's when and how to prune your plum trees. advertisement. House Digest. The Best Time To Prune ... Another disease, called Cytospora canker, affects fruit production and can even kill the tree ...

Average life expectancy for purple plum trees probably five to six years before peach tree borers and bacterial stem canker invade and kill them.

In the past two weeks, I’ve gotten photos of orange or red sap oozing from plum trees and a redbud in the Albuquerque area, an ash in Las Cruces, and I’ve taken a ton of pictures of plum ...

Plum trees are particularly prone to silver leaf disease, caused by a fungus, and to canker, which is easy to spot because of the orange-coloured resin that seeps from the branches.

Plum trees are different to apples and pears in so much as the main pruning is done while they are in active growth. This is because their chief diseases, namely bacterial canker and silver leaf ...

The tree, which is in an east-facing yard, has been growing well and is about 12-15′ tall. It is actually larger than anticipated as it was tagged as a dwarf tree. I am looking for advice as it ...

A: The bad news is that the average life expectancy of purple-leafed plums is five or six years before borers or bacterial canker kills the trees. They are so pretty, but so short-lived. I can’t ...

If you have cherry or plum trees, now's a good time to check for a disease called black knot fungus. The fungus can go unnoticed with summer foliage but is apparent when trees are winter-bare.

PRUNING plum trees in summer rather than winter helps to keep them disease-free and sets them up to produce another great crop next year. By Deborah Stone. 18:52, Tue, Aug 5, ...