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 in the spring on when the fungus is active in your field. You will need to look at the plot in the spring about 2 times […]
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With the last bit of wet weather we have had from none to moderate risk of Botrytis infection, if it is already in your field. You need to have the fungus present in your field in a number of clones before we get the wet weather conditions to get any spread of Botrytis. We […]
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Mummy Berry I have only had reports of dried up pinheads and cups in the midcoast, and Hancock and Washington counties this week. I think the cups are done in most locations. Mummy berry season is probably over in most areas. Botrytis I have not heard any reports of Botrytis blossom blight this year so […]
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There was an infection period in some fields from Saturday, May 14 to Sunday, May 15 . Only our weather stations in Sedgwick (Sunday, 1:00 a.m.start), Columbia (Sunday, 12:20 a.m. start) and East Machias (Sunday 2:00 a.m. start) detected long enough leaf wetness to cause an infection period. All other field sites were too short a […]
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Waldo, Lincoln, Knox Counties I am not sure if you are done yet or not. We saw numerous spore-producing mummy berry cups at the field in Hope (Appleton) on Wednesday, May 11. I have no reports of cups from Liberty or other areas. If you have a wet or slower field you may still have […]
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I had new reports on Friday of pinheads in some fields and dried up cups in other fields near by. I suspect we are getting near the end, but I think we still have cups in most fields. With this rainy weather we had over the weekend, many of our fields had one to three […]
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We had another mummy berry infection period in most areas where we have weather stations. All locations EXCEPT Waldoboro and Searsport had an infection period that started around Thursday, May 5 and extended to Friday, May 6. The infection period started on Thursday, May 5 between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. in all locations. With […]
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I have reports of cups still present in Appleton and Liberty and all through Downeast. I suspect there are still mummy berry cups through out the area. I suspect the cups will last through to next week with the cool wet weather were are forecast to have this weekend. We had another infection event […]
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There has been weather to cause an infection period in most blueberry growing areas. The weather has been dry and many people report dried up pinheads in their fields, I think it is too early for the fungus to be gone yet. I suspect most fields still have cups and would have experienced an infection […]
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Weather Stations Link Here is the link to the weather station website: Maine Blueberry Weather Stations 2016 (AgriNet University of Maine Blueberry Disease Model Data Dashboard website) The first page shows our latest date for a weather station and graphs showing weather parameters for all of the weather stations. If you click on the “Downloader and […]
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