Cold temperatures that would cause damage to flowers and pinheads occurred in Aurora area and possibly in Hope and in the barrens. In the Hope area on May 31st, temperatures were close to 30F for about 1 hour. In the barrens, temperatures were about 28F for about 1 hr in the early morning of May […]
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There were cold temperatures recorded again at Aurora and fields in the barrens. At the Aurora weather station, temperatures were below 28 F from 2am to 5:30am and the lowest temperature was 24 bF for 1 1/2 hours in that time period. In the barrens, temperatures were below 32 F for about two hours and […]
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There were temperatures below 28F overnight from May 22nd midnight to 6am. Temperatures below 28F can injure or kill open flowers. What flower damage occurs to a field depends upon the blueberry plants genetics, if the plants are in dip in the ground and how cold and for how long there are cold temperatures. Weather […]
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Mummy berry season Mummy berry season is starting to end in some areas. If the cups are finished in your area, there is no advantage for spraying fungicides for mummy berry control at this time. The secondary Monilinia spores on the dead tissues (mummy berry symptoms) are carried by pollinators to the healthy flowers to […]
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There were cold temperatures recorded at some weather stations Downeast. The other stations did not have as cold a temperatures overnight. The weather stations are only one measurement in a field and other areas may have also dipped in temperature around them. The temperatures below 28 F may cause damage to fruit. Temperatures below 31 […]
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Cold temperatures were seen in a few of our weather stations overnight from Monday, May 22 to Tuesday, May 23rd. In many locations, the temperature at the weather stations did not dip below 31 F. We do not have weather stations working at Montegail and Searsport, but at all other locations we did not see […]
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We had cold conditions reported at our blueberry weather stations mostly in the Midcoast area and colder fields Downeast. The weather stations are only in one spot in a field and will not reflect what has happened in that entire field or other fields nearby. In the Midcoast, we had weather conditions that may kill […]
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Cold temperatures were recorded at weather stations in Ellsworth, Eastbrook, Steuben, and Deblois. Temperatures were below 35 F from about 11pm to 6am over the night of May 24th to May 25th. Temperatures below 32 were present for 2 to 5 hours. The weather stations did not record temperatures below 28F at any of the […]
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Mummy berry season Cups have dried up in plots in the midcoast and downeast with the warm, dry weather we are having. If you have a late field, you may still have mummy berry cups. What will start to show up this week and next are symptoms of mummy berry which include dead and dying […]
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Some fields had conditions for Botrytis infections over the last weekend from May 20th to May 24th. If your field already had Botrytis disease before this weekend, then there was a chance of more Botrytis infection occurring under these weather conditions. If you did not have any visible disease, then the risk of infection was […]
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