This dry, warm weather will have finished off Monilinia cups for this year in most blueberry growing areas. If you do still see cups in your area, please let me know! You may have seen mummy berry symptoms of dead leaves and flowers with the base of the tissue having a grey powdery spore production […]
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COLD TEMPERATURES: We had cold temperatures again overnight in many blueberry growing areas. Please see below for the approximate length of time the weather station recorded temperatures approximately 32F. MUMMY BERRY: There are still mummy berry cups and pinheads in Midcoast and Downeast fields. The wet weather we are forecast to get Friday through Saturday […]
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As expected there were cold temperatures across blueberry growing areas overnight. Please see below for the approximate length of time the weather station recorded temperatures approximately 32F. Location Hours at Cold Temperatures overnight May 12th to May 13th Brunswick 8 Waldoboro 9.5 West Rockport 4 Hope/Appleton 6 Searsport 3 Bluehill 9 Ellsworth/Hancock 9 Aurora 11.5 […]
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All weather stations experienced wet conditions and cold temperatures from May 8th to May 10th. Following our disease estimates, some fields may have experienced conditions that caused Monilinia infection. I do not know if infection can occur with snow on the plants. However, there is a good chance there was infection even with the cold […]
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There are still mummy berry cups reported in all locations that have been examined. I think there are still cups present in all locations. Over the past two days, a few fields near Brunswick, Waldoboro, Gouldsboro and Montegail experienced conditions for Monilinia infection on one or both of the last two nights. Other fields, Brunswick, […]
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Frost The weather station in Deblois recorded a frost (temperatures below 32F) for two hours in the early morning of Tuesday June 4th. Other weather stations in Bluehill, Columbia, Whiting/East Machias and Cooper reported temperatures below 40F but not frost. There still may have been frost in other fields in these areas, particularly in low […]
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Frost Some fields in Hancock and Washington counties had a frost event (temperatures below 32F) in the early morning of Tuesday May 28. Please see table below to see which areas had recorded frost conditions. Even if a weather station did not report temperatures less than 32F, there still may have been frost in low […]
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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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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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There have been some reports of localized patchy frost damage the last week of May followed by Botrytis symptoms showing up this week. Frost will make blossoms more susceptible to Botrytis infection. I have heard this from growers in the Union area and around the Orland area. In one field, we saw low levels of […]
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