Today I passed by a few of my cedar trees and the young ones were
beginning to collect those ugly rust galls on various branches. I pull
them off and bury them
a foot underground. I am guessing that burying destroys the rust cells.

But I was thinking of some analogy between apple tree cultivars and
humans and cedar rust. The best I could think of is this one but I do
not like it. Keep in mind that I looked for an analogy because I cut
down all the apple tree cultivars I had bought a few years back that was
infected heavily with cedar rust. So I lost time and money on those
apple trees.

Suppose apple trees were the intelligent life forms on Earth and that
apple trees go to stores and markets to buy humans. So that humans at
present who grow apple cultivars that are susceptible to cedar rust is
like apple trees going to the store to buy humans and fancying humans
with say multiple sclerosis. So that in the apple suburbs can be seen
alot of humans bought and placed in their yards who are afflicted with
multiple sclerosis.

My theme: my theme is let us eliminate all apple cultivars that are not
resistant to cedar rust. Do not waste time or money on growing apple
trees that are susceptible to cedar rust.

And that the reason so many apple trees planted that are cedar rust
prone is because we have not focused attention to the fact that we can
decrease cedar rust by getting rid of these prone cultivars.

That we have cultivars that are disease prone when we should just chuck
all those cultivars and start anew with cedar rust resistant apple
genetics and then build an entire new range of cultivars all of which
are more resistant to rust.

So can someone give me a better analogy for I do not like the Multiple
Sclerosis analogy.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Congratulations, you have found one of the best ways you could think
of to perpetuate your infestation.

You need to _remove_ infected litter from your orchard altogether.

[snip]

What h*******t.

Just because you don't understand doesn't mean any other orchardist
doesn't know how to keep his trees free from rust. One, keep your d**n
orchard clean. Two, don't plant cedars near your valuable trees.
Three, use a proper integrated pest management program that controls
rust and other fungus.

So what. We can also control cedar rust through integrated pest
management. This allows us to continue to grow desirable apple
varieties that are not rust resistant.

Maybe you can. Any farmer has better things to do than listen to such
{*filter*}amamie ideas.

--
Chris Green

Well, slash, burn, and start again seems a mite extreme; but, last
time I looked, breeding for disease-resistance wasn't in itself
generally regarded as an eccentric notion. Farmers on the whole rather
like the idea.

Mike.

Agreed, but AP isn't preaching breed for disease resistance, he's
calling for extermination of rust-susceptible strains.

If I had a field of producing Jonathans (susceptible) and somebody
told me I had to cut 'em down for firewood so he could plant Eastern
red cedars in infection range, I'd be pretty blunt about telling him
where he could stick that idea.

--
Chris Green