Expert: kathy crowley Date: 5/16/2008 Subject: apricot tree
Question QUESTION: I have an apricot tree that is oozing orange sap and one of the small branch is dying, could you please tell me how to treat it.
thaks
farida
ANSWER: Hi Farda...Learned this along time ago. Take a sewing needle and push it thru the area where it is gummy and you will kill the borer that is in there...wala no poison, it really works.
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QUESTION: Kathy,
Thanks for the help, I did what you suggested with a needle, do I seal the place where the sap is coming out of with a pruning sealant after I am done.
Thanks again
Farida
Answer Hi farda...I have never sealed any tree up and they all did fine. I know up north the paint trees and put sealers on them, I know of no nursery here if Florida that does. The needle trick should do the job and the sap should stop running. My dad had a nursery in NJ and that is how he healed the flowering pear trees when borers got into them...he is gone now but not forgotten.
