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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Frost In Northern Hancock at our Silsby Plains site and at our Deblois and Cherryfield weather station locations in Washington County, there were frost conditions overnight from Wednesday, May 28 to Thursday, May 29. Lee Beers is a Ph.D. student studying cold tolerance in blueberries and his research has found conditions from 28ºF to 24ºF […]
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