With my luck I’d probably end up grafting onto a rootstock that was already infected haha
Hey Simon, did you treat your trees from Kens order for the RKN before planting in the ground? Any idea if that first round order with Ken had them? If so guess I’m already screwed because my trees been in the ground for months, yay...
Hey Nate, I did treat my trees before I put them into the ground because I may have accidentally inoculated my plants with RKN from another source, thinking it was Frankia. I still think I inoculated with Frankia because of the explosive growth of my trees and the lack of RKN nodules but I treated with the Monterey Nematode Control followed by several applications of beneficial nematodes.
I inspected the root system every time I up potted and didn’t see any RKN galls at all. I posted multiple pictures of my plants root systems on this forum.
If your trees are already planted into the ground, I wouldn’t dig them up. You either have the RKN or you don’t do you have a decision to make. Treat them in ground just to be safe or roll the dice.
RKN can have a significant impact on vegetable crops but can be unnoticeable on fruit trees unless their populations are very high.
Simon