Wild Blueberry Blog

5.12.12 Mummy Berry Forecast: Saturday, May 5

By Seanna Annis Waldo, Lincoln, Knox, Hancock and Washington Counties There was an infection period overnight in all areas. Mature cups are probably still in most fields. Almost finished in Waldo, Lincoln and Knox counties but still probably around.  There are lots of mature cups producing spores in Hancock and Washington counties. Your plants are […]

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5.04.12 Mummy Berry Forecast: Friday, May 4

By Seanna Annis Waldo, Hancock and Lincoln Counties Mature mummy berry cups producing spores were still found on Thursday, May 3 in Appleton. No new pinheads were found so the mummy berry cups are starting to die off. Your plants are susceptible to mummy berry infection ALL through their development. Experiments have shown even opened […]

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5.02.12 Mummy Berry Forecast: Wednesday, May 2

By Seanna Annis Well, the rain yesterday took me by surprise, considering the weather forecast said very low probability for rain just hours before it started raining! Waldo, Lincoln, Knox, Hancock and Washington Counties There was an infection period overnight in all areas. Mature cups are probably still in most fields.  Please see the table […]

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4.30.12 Mummy Berry Forecast: Monday, April 30

By Seanna Annis Lincoln, Knox and Waldo Counties Mature mummy berry cups producing spores were still present in Appleton and Liberty on Monday morning. Pinheads were still found in Liberty, suggesting that mature cups are probably still present in most areas. No infection periods occurred over the weekend. I expect the mummy berry cups will […]

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4.27.12 Mummy Berry Forecast: Friday, April 27

By Seanna Annis All Areas An infection period for the fungus to get into the plants was produced in most blueberry growing areas from Thursday through Friday. If you applied a fungicide on or after Thursday, April 19, your plants were probably protected during this infection period. If you applied a fungicide before Thursday, April […]

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4.26.12 Mummy Berry Forecast: Thursday, April 26

By Seanna Annis Knox, Lincoln and Waldo Counties Numerous pinheads and mature cups are still present at Appleton, Liberty, and Belfast.  Mature cups producing spores are probably present throughout this area.  As mentioned before, the plants are susceptible as long as cups are present in your field. Hancock and Washington Counties Numerous pinhead and mature […]

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4.24.12 Mummy Berry Forecast: Tuesday, April 24

By Seanna Annis We have had a long infection period extending in some fields from Friday, April 20 and in others from Saturday, April 21. I have below the locations where we have weather stations and roughly when the infection periods started in those areas. If you had applied fungicide on or after Monday, April […]

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4.20.12 Mummy Berry Forecast: Friday, April 20

By Seanna Annis Washington County Mummy berry pinheads were found in Meddybemps area on Thursday.  The plants are most susceptible in this area. There is a chance that mature cups ARE present in fields in this area.  The rain this weekend may produce infection periods this weekend in these fields. If you use fungicides, you […]

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4.19.12 Mummy Berry Forecast: Thursday, April 19

By Seanna Annis Lincoln, Waldo and Knox and Southern Hancock Counties Mature mummy berry cups are actively producing spores in these counties. Once your plants have partially open buds they are susceptible to this fungus until the fungus stops producing spores.  Numerous mummy berry pinheads (not yet ready to produce spores) are still present on […]

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4.17.12 Mummy Berry Forecast: Tuesday, April 17

By Seanna Annis Knox, Lincoln and Waldo Counties Fog in fields close to the coast may have caused an infection period for the mummy berry fungus to get into the plants last night. In our Belfast site, approximately four miles from the coast (straight line distance), there was ten hours of fog (at an average […]

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