Now is the time to collect mummy berries to put out your own plot.  It is easy to set out plots and it will provide you with valuable information next spring on when the fungus is active in your field.  You will need to look at the plot in the spring about 2 times a […]

Temperatures dropped into the 30s F in many fields last night and below freezing in some, see table below.  These cold temperatures may damage flowers.  If you wish to see the temperatures for the weather station closest to your field, please go to the following website.  You can click on the graphs on the top […]

The last reports I had of new cups and pinheads was last Tuesday in Whiting/East Machias and most places reported no new pinheads or drying up cups later in the week through the barrens.  I think with the warm weather we have had after the weekend we are probably finished with mummy berry infection this […]

Washington County Cups are probably dried up in most areas, except in later fields.  If you have a late field, your field may have experienced an infection period overnight. Please see the table below. Please let me know if you still have cups. You can email me, Seanna Annis, at sannis@maine.edu or call me at […]

Midcoast Region: Knox, Waldo and York counties None of the weather stations had temperatures below 32F last night. Hancock and Washington Counties Most weather stations did have temperatures below 32ºF last night.  Some fields may have had flower damage from frost depending upon how open the flowers were and the cold hardiness of the clones. […]

Botrytis Time to start looking for Botrytis in your fields.  Botrytis kills almost open (pink stage)  and open flowers. There may be only a few flowers in a cluster or a few clusters of flowers on a stem that are infected.  The characteristic sign of the fungus is black hairs (often with gray spore masses […]

Midcoast Region: Knox, Waldo and York Counties All reports are the cups are dried up in this area. Hancock County North Ellsworth and Aurora did not have any cups.  There may still be cups in the  Franklin area.  If you have a late field, you may have experienced an infection period. Downeast Cups are drying […]

Midcoast Region Unless you have a really late field, the mummy berry cups are probably not active in your area.  If you have a late field, you may have experienced an infection period. Downeast Infection periods occurred in most areas from Tuesday to Wednesday (today).  Reports are cups are drying up in many areas but […]

Midcoast Region Cups are probably dying off.  If you have a late field, you may have experienced an infection period. Downeast Infection periods occurred in most areas last night and we are likely to have another today. Please let me know if you still have cups. You can email me, Seanna Annis, at sannis@maine.edu or […]

Midcoast Region On Friday we have reports that cups were dried up in Waldoboro, but still present in Hope and Appleton areas.  I suspect cups were active in areas over the weekend but are on their way out. There  were conditions in some fields for infection periods over the weekend.  Please see table below. Downeast […]