We have found apothecia (cups) in the Waldoboro field with a weather station. The plant flower buds were just starting and so they were not at 30 to 40% F2. I do not think there is likely to be an infection period with the rain forecasted for Wednesday, April 25 to Thursday, April 26 this week. […]
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Mummy berry season is starting. We have found pinheads in a Waldoboro field. Some flowers buds were starting to swell. With the warmer weather, the plants and fungus will be starting to move along. We have started to put up weather stations and hope to have all of our stations in the midcoast area set […]
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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 two times a […]
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Mummy Berry Mummy berry symptoms are still appearing in many fields. IF you have both dead leaves and flowers and see the grey masses of spores at the base of the flowers and leaves you have mummy berry. Botrytis I have not heard of any Botrytis reported yet this year. Symptoms include dead flowers with […]
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Mummy Berry Mummy berry symptoms have appeared in many growers fields. You may be finding both dead flowers and leaves on your plants. If it looks like the flowers did not open before they died, the flowers were probably killed by mummy berry. You can see grey masses of spores at the base of the […]
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Everyone I have heard from reports no viable cups in their fields in the barrens. In most areas, mummy berry season is over for this year. If you have symptoms appearing on your plants, some of the spores from those infected tissues will infect healthy flowers and cause mummified fruit (mummy berries) at harvest. These […]
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Midcoast The cups should be done in all of the midcoast areas. It is time to look for Botrytis infections in your blossoms in your earlier blooming clones. Downeast Many locations reported a few cups still present on Friday. By Monday some of those locations reported only dried up cups. There was weather to cause […]
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Midcoast We had another infection period overnight from Thursday, May 11 to Friday, May 12. I think this may have caused some infection in some fields in the midcoast region. I suspect the cups will be done this weekend with the warmer weather. Downeast These fields also had an infection period. I do think there […]
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Midcoast and Downeast We had another infection event overnight from Tuesday, May 9 to Wednesday, May 10 in most areas. There are still mature cups in some fields in the midcoast area. I hope they will be done by the end of this week, but it would help if you can check your plots. Downeast […]
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Midcoast There was another infection event from Monday, May 8 overnight to Tuesday, May 9. There are reports of mature cups but also cups dying off. I am hoping we are nearing the end of the mummy berry season for this area. Please let me know when your mummy berry cups are dead or dying […]
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