RMG - 3/23/2020 14:45

Subscribe to the MSU Fruit and Nut news letter and you can keep up with insects and deceases in your area on a weekly basis along with how to treat the problem. I haven't used dormant oil in years only because I dont want to spend the money. I start the season with a delayed dormant spray of Sulforix. Sulforix is a lime sulfur mix that
is listed for a very narrow amount of insects but the main reason I use it is for over wintering decease spores. There are many variations of lime sulfur and each one will have a different labeled use rate. The one thing they all have in common is that if you are going to use dormant oil and lime sulfur , you must wait a certain amount of time between applications or you will have tree damage. The rest of the year I use captan and Oxidate tank mixed, for fungicide and so far it has worked. Insecticides, it just depends on what insects you have. My experience is on apples and pears.