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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Hancock and Washington Counties I have heard from a variety of growers and sounds like cups are drying up in some areas BUT are still active with pinheads and mature spore-producing cups in other fields. Whether there are still cups in your field, likely depends upon how far along your field is and how much […]
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Hancock and Washington Counties I have had reports of cups and pinheads around various areas of Hancock and Washington counties on Thursday and Friday of last week (May 14 and 15), so I think there were still cups present in fields over this weekend in these areas. The cups are drying up and I suspect […]
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