Unfortunately, it does look like Georgia will experience pretty high winds from hurricane Irma as it passes north. In addition to the direct damage to trees, tree decline and death over time can be a\u00a0direct result of hurricanes and tropical storms. High winds whip young trees from side-to-side like large pom-poms, since leaves are\u00a0still present, and trunks\/root systems are relatively weak by comparison to larger, established trees. Trees are\u00a0often laid on their sides, but even erect trees will\u00a0not escape physical root and crown damage. When one adds the impact of rain-saturated soils, generally ideal for Phytophthora infection, one can see why damaged roots\u00a0and wet soil will provide a “perfect storm” for root rot. Bottom line, in the following months,\u00a0roots and trunks\u00a0may show symptoms of\u00a0Phytophthora root rot.<\/p>\n
There is little that one can do for this type of disease once symptoms are observed. Ridomil Gold,\u00a0Aliette (non-bearing trees) and Prophyt (possibly other similar products) are registered for control of these pathogens. If one incurs hurricane damage, then the time to treat would be immediately after it occurs, not when symptoms are observed. However, the chances of success under these conditions are not generally considered good. Multiple repeat treatments would also be required, so treatment would be relatively expensive as well. With this said, you need to decide now whether you want to\u00a0apply fungicides\u00a0immediately after the hurricane passes over.\u00a0\u00a0Unfortunately,\u00a0high winds in young orchards will likely result in\u00a0dead and dying trees in 2018.\u00a0Consider that this might be possible, and though I don’t know exactly how the various crop insurance and disaster programs work, delayed death should be part of the equation when it comes to hurricanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unfortunately, it does look like Georgia will experience pretty high winds from hurricane Irma as it passes north. In addition to the direct damage to trees, tree decline and death over time can be a\u00a0direct result of hurricanes and tropical storms. High winds whip young trees from side-to-side like large pom-poms, since leaves are\u00a0still present, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}