Waldo, Knox and Lincoln Counties There was a possible infection period overnight from April 18 to April 19 reported at our weather stations located in Waldoboro, West Rockport, Appleton, and Searsport. I have reports from growers of mummy berry cups in Appleton and Liberty. I suspect there are mummy berry cups throughout the midcoast area […]
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The mummy berry season for 2016 is fast approaching. I have had no reports of mummy berry cups yet. I expect with this warm weather, we will have some coming up this weekend or early next week. On Wednesday, April 13, there were pinheads in West Rockport, and the plants were getting close to having […]
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If you have not put out your mummy berry plot, now is the time! You can still find mummies at this time. Walk around a crop field and look for any mummies left on the plants, typically under that plant, you will find a lot more mummies. The mummy berries should still have some grey […]
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Frank Drummond wants growers to know that SWD has been caught in southern Maine and one area in Columbia on the barrens this week (July 23, 2015) ? Very spotty captures, little threat at this point, but all growers should have traps out.
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With the wet weather over the past few days, we have had low to high risk of Botrytis infection in fields which already had Botrytis present. If there was no Botrytis seen before this weekend in your field, it is unlikely there will be more disease now. Most fields in the midcoast, Knox, Lincoln and […]
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With the wet weather over the weekend, we have had moderate to high risk of Botrytis infection in fields which already had Botrytis present. If there was no Botrytis seen before this weekend in your field, it is unlikely there will be more disease now. Botrytis infection levels are affected by both temperature and length […]
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There were weather conditions that provided for some risk of Botrytis infection from the rain storms that came through from Thursday, May 28 to Friday, May 29. Please see the chart below for the risk in your area. IF you have already seen Botrytis in your field, then you may have more if you were […]
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Mummy Berry Disease in Hancock and Washington Counties The reports I have from around Washington county are there are drying up cups and no new viable pinheads being produced. Only a couple of sites have reported still seeing drying up cups. I think we are near the end of the mummy berry cup period this […]
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Hancock and Washington Counties There were conditions for mummy berry infection throughout this area overnight. Please see the chart below for times when infection periods started. Some start times are a bit uncertain due to some interrupted reports in cellular signal for the weather stations, but I am certain infection periods did occur in those […]
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Hancock and Washington Counties Localized rain has produced a mummy berry infection period overnight at our weather stations in Eastbrook, Aurora, and Deblois. Other locations did not have infection periods overnight. I suspect the rain forecast for today will produce infection periods in other fields today. If you have applied fungicides after May 9 to […]
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