Plum Pocket Disease: Remove Fruit, Fungicide Next Year

Plum Pocket Disease: Remove Fruit, Fungicide Next Year

Cherry plum with elongated, distorted fruit: plum pockets (fungal, like peach leaf curl). Fruit powdery outside.

Now

• Pick off all affected fruit; destroy.
• Too late for fungicide this year.

Next Year

• Fungicide at bud break (copper or chlorothalonil).
• Disease environmentally driven; may not recur.

Sanitation reduces spores; timely spray prevents infection.