Cooperative Extension: Maine Wild Blueberries

Waldo, Knox and Lincoln Counties There was a possible infection period overnight from April 18 to April 19 reported at our weather stations located in Waldoboro, West Rockport, Appleton, and Searsport. I have reports from growers of mummy berry cups in Appleton and Liberty. I suspect there are mummy berry cups throughout the midcoast area […]

The mummy berry season for 2016 is fast approaching. I have had no reports of mummy berry cups yet. I expect with this warm weather, we will have some coming up this weekend or early next week. On Wednesday, April 13,  there were pinheads in West Rockport, and the plants were getting close to having […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hancock and Washington Counties Mature cups producing spores and pinheads are still being reported in areas around these counties.  In some fields, the cups and pinheads appear to have dried up in the mummy berry plots, but I suspect there are still cups present in other areas of the field considering how widespread reports of […]

Hancock and Washington Counties There were not long enough wet periods for mummy berry infection to have occurred from Tuesday, May 23 night to Wednesday, May 14 morning. There were infection periods in most areas starting on Saturday, May 9 night and another starting Monday, May 11 night, and in some fields starting on Sunday, […]

Lincoln, Waldo and Knox Counties I have reports the cups have dried up in these areas and no new cups or pinheads are developing.  There were conditions for an infection period overnight in these areas but I think it is unlikely that many fields had infections considering the fungus is probably done in most fields.  […]