We’d like to welcome Philip Fanning to the Wild Blueberry research team! He already has an important survey on spotted wing drosophila (SWD) for growers to fill out that will help to inform future research. We have been dealing with Spotted Wing Drosophila for a decade and it is time to transition from short-term crisis […]
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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 […]
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It looks like there was little Botrytis risk overall during most of bloom period in most fields. As most fields are in full bloom or close to it, there is little risk of further infection that would severely affect bloom. Of the wet periods we have had in June, only two produced a risk for […]
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Frost The weather station in Deblois recorded a frost (temperatures below 32F) for two hours in the early morning of Tuesday June 4th. Other weather stations in Bluehill, Columbia, Whiting/East Machias and Cooper reported temperatures below 40F but not frost. There still may have been frost in other fields in these areas, particularly in low […]
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Frost Some fields in Hancock and Washington counties had a frost event (temperatures below 32F) in the early morning of Tuesday May 28. Please see table below to see which areas had recorded frost conditions. Even if a weather station did not report temperatures less than 32F, there still may have been frost in low […]
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Botrytis is a fungus that varies each year in its presence in a field. You need to have infection in early blooming clones or other plants in your field to provide the spores to spread the infection. If you do NOT have symptoms (dead flowers/leaves WITH black hairs), then no matter how wet the weather […]
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Hancock and Washington counties. Most growers are reporting dried up Monilinia cups and no new ones. I think we are reaching the end. If you do have a later developing field or a field with wet heavy soil, you may still have cups around this weekend. We had conditions from May 19 to May 20 […]
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Hancock and Washington counties Cups are drying up and dying in mummy berry plots in many fields. There are still reports of cups in some fields. I have found that when cups are starting to die off in mummy berry plots, there may still be some later cups produced but it is the last few. […]
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Hancock and Washington counties There was another infection period from May 15 to May 16 in some areas. It depended upon the local temperatures and rain fall length which varied across the region. Please take account of those conditions in your field. Please let me know what your mummy berry plots are doing in these […]
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