Curative and protective direct application of garlic extractsand clove oil on disease controlFor the curative application, a similar trend was observed oneach cultivar (‘Granny Smith’, ‘Golden Delicious’ and ‘Pink Lady’).Significant differences occurred between water control and thetreatments. No significant difference between the 40% and 50% gar-lic extract treatments was noted. All treatments were effective atcontrolling the growth of the B. cinerea curatively on all cultivars asis evident by a reduction in lesion diameter in the treatments whencompared to the control (Fig. 1).Even though data showed no significant differences betweenthe garlic extracts and clove oil treatments, the garlic extract at40% and 50% elicited a slightly smaller lesion diameter comparedto the 40% garlic extract + 1% clove oil treatment, for the curativeapplication indicating that the garlic treatments alone performedbetter at reducing pathogen development.The effect of protective treatments differed depending on thecultivar with 1% clove oil + 40% garlic extract giving significantlybetter control of B. cinerea. With this treatment there was no sig-nificant difference observed for the cultivars tested. A significantreduction in lesion diameter relative to the control is noted on allthree cultivars (Fig. 1).Curative application of garlic extracts and clove oil by directexposure of the pathogen to the extract showed a significanttreatment and cultivar interaction (P ≤ 0.05) for the control of P.expansum (Fig. 2). All treatments significantly reduced the lesiondiameter on all three cultivars compared to the control. Althoughnot significantly different to other treatments such as 40% and 50%garlic extract and 1% clove oil, the combination treatment workedbest to inhibit growth of P. expansum on ‘Granny Smith’ and ‘GoldenDelicious’ apples.When applied protectively for the control of P. expansum, no sig-nificant cultivar treatment interaction was noted (P > 0.05). For eachFig