[nafex] Gnats (was Re: Lodi vs. Yellow Transp.)

["Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>]

I've found that a hat with a wide brim also helps with gnats (they 
tend to buzz around at the hat brim instead of at your face), but I 
have doubts that this would be any use for the black flies...

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6

--- In nafex@y..., Don Yellman <dyellman@e...> wrote:
> Helene:
>     I have not grown Lodi, but some of my relatives out in Iowa have
> one, and it appears to be identical in character and appearance to 
my
> Yellow Transparent.  Most nursery info describes Lodi as 
an "improved"
> Yellow Transparent, although I have never been clear on wherein the
> improvement lies.  It may be that it has the potential to be 
slightly
> larger, although thinning can produce quite a large Y.T. as well.  
Mine
> grow so fast that they often crack as they approach the yellow 
stage,
> and have to be removed immediately.  I once read about the cross 
that
> produced Lodi, and I think your info is correct that it was 
Montgomery,
> whatever that is.
>     I do have another Y.T. cross: Early Cortland, which is Y.T. x
> Cortland, but the appearance is quite different than Y.T. in that 
it is
> a red apple, and ripens just a few days later than Y.T..  I think 
it is
> also slightly more durable off the tree than Y.T..  Unfortunately, 
my
> Early Cortland tree, although large and mature, has never had enough
> blossoms to set a decent crop of fruit in spite of my best efforts 
to
> prune and shape it into submission.  The same thing is happening 
again
> this spring.  I can see fewer than a dozen blossom clusters up 
there.
> The tree is over 10 years old, and I still don't have enough fruit 
to
> even make a judgment on it.
> 
>    BTW,  I was thinking about your black flies, and, although they 
may
> be more agressive than the gnats that plague N. Virginia in summer, 
I
> have had great success by spraying a little "OFF" into my palm and
> applying it around my eyes and ears, which are the favorite gnat
> targets.  On a moist day in summer, I am often out there puttering
> around in a virtual cloud of gnats, and I am not even a really tasty
> morsel.
> 
> Rgds, Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA


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