Mummy berry cups have dried up and will be gone in the Midcoast areas. In most Downeast areas the cups have dried up and are almost gone. Cups that were seen in Blueberry Hill Farm in Jonesboro, May 10th, are dried up and new pinheads have not been seen. With this past warm weather, the […]
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Mummy berry season Mummy berry season is starting to end in some areas. If the cups are finished in your area, there is no advantage for spraying fungicides for mummy berry control at this time. The secondary Monilinia spores on the dead tissues (mummy berry symptoms) are carried by pollinators to the healthy flowers to […]
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All fields with weather stations had conditions for a Monilinia infection period overnight from May 6th to May 7th. The fog started in the evening from about 6:30 to 8:30pm and continued until morning. I do have reports of cups still present in the Midcoast and Downeast so there is a good chance this weather […]
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The rain caused conditions for Monilinia infection in most fields with weather stations from May 2 to the morning of May 6th. Depending upon the field, there were one to four infection periods in this stretch of days. If you applied fungicides on or after 7 to 10 days before these infection periods (April 22 […]
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There were Monilinia infection periods at most weather station locations overnight from April 30th to May 1st and May 1st to May 2nd (please see table below). The raining weather is continuing in most areas. Pinheads and cups are still being found so there is still chance of infection. Unless you have a late field, […]
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There were weather conditions for Monilinia infection in most of our weather station locations. In most fields, the rain started about 7 to 8pm on April 28 evening and carried over to the morning of April 29th. One area, around Appleton and Liberty, did not have Monilinia infection conditions. Most plants would have been open […]
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There were no infection periods on Wednesday April 24th to April 25th. The temperatures were too cold for infection. Most fields with weather stations have experienced temperatures below 28 F this past week for multiple nights. It is not clear what effect this may have on developing buds. The next chance for Monilinia infection is […]
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There were cold temperatures recorded at some weather stations Downeast. The other stations did not have as cold a temperatures overnight. The weather stations are only one measurement in a field and other areas may have also dipped in temperature around them. The temperatures below 28 F may cause damage to fruit. Temperatures below 31 […]
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Cold temperatures were seen in a few of our weather stations overnight from Monday, May 22 to Tuesday, May 23rd. In many locations, the temperature at the weather stations did not dip below 31 F. We do not have weather stations working at Montegail and Searsport, but at all other locations we did not see […]
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At the blueberry weather stations, there were cold temperatures recorded again in fields near Aurora and Deblois and cool temperatures in fields near Steuben and Appleton. These are single location temperature reports so the temperatures over the whole field and in nearby fields can be different. In the field in Aurora, the temperature sensor […]
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