Cedar Apple Rust on My Apple Trees! What is it and how to treat it.

Welcome back to The Little Orchard Farm! Today I want to take you out to the orchard and show you a common fungus I am battling. Cedar Apple Rust is very common in the South and tends to affect apple trees not immune to the fungus by spotting leaves and scabbing fruit. Today we will talk about what is Cedar Apple Rust and how to treat it. So come along on the journey and we hope you enjoy as we build our Modern Homestead American Dream!

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[mastershonuff]

First year using Immunox fungicide and no cedar apple rust. I started spring when the leaves were finger nail length. I tried organic but it didn’t work. My apples and the tree looks great. For insects, spinosad is spectacular. Those are the only 2 sprays I use. I also apply a stretchable wrap at the truck and apply sticky gel to stop ants from putting aphids on the new growth.

[LBPreviews]

The video was fascinating, however I couldn't help but notice how well groomed this guy is.

[Danni-jx]

The sound of pumping that sprayer could double as a turkey call, lol!

[lordbyron]

I Have this problem on my pear tree, plum tree and hedge plants . I started spraying with apple cider vinegar and water mixture 3 times a week ….. baking soda and water mixture once a week .

[mistereearly]

I just did electro culture techniques and the cedar rust went away.

Also took copper shavings and sprinkled it all around my apples trees. Done.

[patkillen]

You need to remove the infected leaves baby. Love your couch! Love you!!!

[catman]

Ok a bit late to the party but I battled the evil cedar rust for several seasons before finally "throwing in the towel"! The first year I learned to late to do much good but the second year I started the copper fungicide early and was diligent in applying, SUCCESS! Or so I thought! While the trees were tiny like those shown here it worked quite well but as the semi-dwarf and even the full dwarf trees matured and grew bigger it became apparent that to say it was a daunting task to save the trees was an understatement! After wasting 6 years I finally gave up and realized that while I still have to spray the other trees to combat various diseases and insects fighting the evil rust just wasn't worth it when the best I could do still yielded dismal results. When they're small it's fairly easy but as they grow it becomes progressively more difficult until it's just not worth it (for me anyway) when there are so many really good and MUCH less intensive varieties out there.

As a side note it was mentioned at the beginning of the video that red delicious was also very much affected by cedar rust but everything I have read, and it certainly has been the case with my red delicious, that they are one of the most resistant apples to this disease, so that comment is a bit puzzling???? If Cedar rust is a problem for an area it "can" be dealt with but as the trees mature it just becomes more and more of a battle that to me anyway just wasn't worth it.

[dcharrison]

Awesome video, thanks for the info on how to treat apple fungus or rust . Cincinnati Ohio

[tylerstrong]

I got 1 of the delicious green apple trees about 5 yrs old now amd its got this really bad this yr. There's spots everywhere! I found what looks like one tiny apple and ive noticed ants everywhere. So spray copper stuff on it how often and how long??

[mattooi]

it really makes me wonder how the local commercial orchards make it work when I seemingly can't keep 2, 6ft backyard apple trees healthy and rust free.

[UnniesStories]

Thank you for sharing. I have two apple trees with apple cedar rust, that already have tiny apples. I just sprayed with copper fungicide. Is there any chance of being able to eat those apples when they are ripe? Or just prepare that the fruits will be badly affected and give up this year's harvest...

[stephencannon]

Any recommended brands for the first biofungicide you mentioned?

[rheaadams]

Hi, so what's wrong if the leaves /new leaves or newly growth is dying. You know the tips of the new growth. Sorry, I really don't know how to explain it. I just planted an apple tree, and the leaves are sprouting out, but the tips are dying. Thank you.

[michellem]

It’s interesting I have an Fireside apple tree that is 12 years old and it’s has had cedar apple rust for about 8 of those years. This year it has grown like crazy and has more apples than ever before. I do eat the apples, but only the pretty clean ones. I leave them for the deer. Next tree will be cedar rust resistant because dang it’s frustrating!

[erwinbrubacker]

Wonder if whey, would work; spraying just before rain.

[hollienguyen]

The experts are now saying 10 miles depending on the wind speed and direction

[HuzzahDaddy]

Got the same problem with my newly planted apple tree. Going to go get some copper fungicide today.
Question, how will you deal with this once the tree is fully grown?

[michelleoverby]

Can you give us an update on how this product worked? Do you still use this product? If not why? If not did you find something that did work? Thanks

[yetid]

Can you make some videos on this subject again this year

[aswadhama]

I advise my friends and relatives not to grow apple trees in their backyard in my zone ( 7B). They do good in the spring and looks beautiful with 100s of apples on the tree. But, ones the day time temperatures hit 90s, they look ugly with brown spots on the leaves and fruits hanging half rotten.