John Kempf tested AEA's Pinyon on loquat trees hit hard by fire blight the year before. Two applications over a month left new growth clean, while untreated trees had 70% infected leaves. He's watching closely through the February-March fruiting season.
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Pinyon
AEA
Twice
About 70%
February–March
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I want to tell you a story about fighting blight on fruit trees. My loquat trees have had fire blight for at least a year now and it totally destroyed the fruit last season. I was basically just removing flower and fruit clusters so the tree could save energy to fight the infection. Soil test results for this bed look really good. The soil health score is high and nutrient availability is pretty good. Despite my healthy soil, I've still been struggling to fight this blight infection and I really needed to step it up. So I was really excited to try the new product that my company AEA just released. The product. The product is called Pinyon and it is friendly to regenerative systems. This is the first time I ever smelled it and I just started cracking up because it smells like chai. It's gentle and it protects the leaf surfaces from getting infected. I applied it twice over the last month and the trees I applied it on do not show any infection on new leaves. I left one tree untreated and that tree has somewhere around 70% infected new leaves. It's hard for me to let this tree suffer from the blight infection, but I think it's important to show the efficacy as our rainy season dwindles away to dry season because the weather is changing. But the untreated tree is still suffering from active blight infection. I'm so happy to see clean new growth on my treated trees. It is so encouraging and I even have hope that maybe we'll have a nice fruit season this year. I don't know. I guess it depends on the vigor that I continue to see if I'm going to let it fruit, but I think I'm going to push for it and just really stay on top of my foliar applications and really baby these trees to see just how quickly I can get them to rebound. These trees start start fruiting in February and March, so it's go time. And if you want to stick around for the journey, please follow along.
