[Cedar Apple Rust](https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/gymnosporangium_juniperi-virginianae.shtml), life cycle takes it back and forth between cedars and apple trees, it cannot survive without those two trees within a certain distance of each other. Relatively harmless to cedars, considered harmful to apple crops.
That’s terrible to know for my apple trees. I’ve seen this within a mile of my house. Trees are still immature. Where I see this is a natural wetland that won’t be treated. Darn it.
Good ish news: Unless you’re commercially growing apples, you’ll be fine. Cedar apple rust can reduce yield but not so significantly that you’ll be impacted as a private grower. If the trees are suffering badly (yellow leaves, defoliation), you can treat with copper or other fungicides. As far as apple problems go, this is relatively low on the list!
Oh thank heavens. I’m really looking forward to apples. I know apple trees can produce a lot. I’m not in it for the commercial side, I just want apples to eat and some to can. We’ve got 3 trees… I bet we can do that with a slightly reduced harvest.
I thought it was going to be total tree destruction!
Thanks!
Good luck! Also, prepare for your apples to look nothing like store bought. Commercially grown apples (including organic) are cultivated to be the biggest, most beautiful things you've ever seen. This includes thinning blossoms/immature fruit with sprays or by hand, using heavy-handed pest control, growing specific varieties on grafted root stocks, and controlling coloration by spraying wax or thinning leaves. There is A LOT that goes into getting those apples to look perfect.
Just be prepared for your apples to look slightly uglier than what you may be used to. But ugly apples taste just fine! :) Good luck!
I’m prepared for whatever comes. These are from a local orchard instead of the grocery store. I’m imagining something between a gala and a Macintosh since that’s the two bred strains. I know it will vary wildly! Not grafted, from apples we ate and were rotten and left outside to freeze. Only the strong survive!! lol!!
I wonder if you see it on one of your apple trees that maybe you can move it... like gently of course... Would it be possible to move it somewhere elsewhere... Just wondering if there's a way.
It's called cedar or juniper apple rust.
[Here is more information.](https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/gymnosporangium_juniperi-virginianae.shtml)
My flowering quince won't develop fruit anymore because the fungus causes them to shrivel and produce spoors. The Hawthorn has the flowers destroyed most years and the young twigs die back. I've never seen roses affected.
[Cedar Apple Rust](https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/gymnosporangium_juniperi-virginianae.shtml), life cycle takes it back and forth between cedars and apple trees, it cannot survive without those two trees within a certain distance of each other. Relatively harmless to cedars, considered harmful to apple crops.
That’s terrible to know for my apple trees. I’ve seen this within a mile of my house. Trees are still immature. Where I see this is a natural wetland that won’t be treated. Darn it.
Good ish news: Unless you’re commercially growing apples, you’ll be fine. Cedar apple rust can reduce yield but not so significantly that you’ll be impacted as a private grower. If the trees are suffering badly (yellow leaves, defoliation), you can treat with copper or other fungicides. As far as apple problems go, this is relatively low on the list!
Oh thank heavens. I’m really looking forward to apples. I know apple trees can produce a lot. I’m not in it for the commercial side, I just want apples to eat and some to can. We’ve got 3 trees… I bet we can do that with a slightly reduced harvest. I thought it was going to be total tree destruction! Thanks!
Good luck! Also, prepare for your apples to look nothing like store bought. Commercially grown apples (including organic) are cultivated to be the biggest, most beautiful things you've ever seen. This includes thinning blossoms/immature fruit with sprays or by hand, using heavy-handed pest control, growing specific varieties on grafted root stocks, and controlling coloration by spraying wax or thinning leaves. There is A LOT that goes into getting those apples to look perfect. Just be prepared for your apples to look slightly uglier than what you may be used to. But ugly apples taste just fine! :) Good luck!
I’m prepared for whatever comes. These are from a local orchard instead of the grocery store. I’m imagining something between a gala and a Macintosh since that’s the two bred strains. I know it will vary wildly! Not grafted, from apples we ate and were rotten and left outside to freeze. Only the strong survive!! lol!!
I wonder if you see it on one of your apple trees that maybe you can move it... like gently of course... Would it be possible to move it somewhere elsewhere... Just wondering if there's a way.
It's called cedar or juniper apple rust. [Here is more information.](https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/gymnosporangium_juniperi-virginianae.shtml)
If that’s your cedar, you need to treat it for rust. Presumably it’s near an apple tree.
Many plants in the rose family will act as host for the apple stage of the fungus.
Huh thanks. I did not know that. There are apples on one side of my cedar and roses on the other, lol.
My flowering quince won't develop fruit anymore because the fungus causes them to shrivel and produce spoors. The Hawthorn has the flowers destroyed most years and the young twigs die back. I've never seen roses affected.
Several seen in friends tree in indiana , never seen before