There were conditions for mummy berry infection periods at our Waldoboro and West Rockport weather stations on May 4th night. In Waldoboro, the infection period started May 4 at approximately 9 pm and at West Rockport approximately at 7pm. They were the only weather stations that experienced long enough wet conditions for an infection period. […]
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There were conditions for mummy berry infection periods at possibly all weather station locations. This may be the case in your field too if you are near a weather station. I do suggest you check the development of your plants. Most infections started late Sunday May 3rd to early Monday May 4th. We have two […]
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As you may have guessed, weather conditions were suitable for mummy berry infection periods at most weather station locations from the early morning (4am to 8am) on Friday May 1st through to Friday night. I expect plants were ready and mummy berry cups were present in the Midcoast region and in many fields Downeast. The […]
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There have been mixed reports of plant development in blueberry growing areas. While some fields are past 40% F2 in the Midcoast and Downeast, there are other fields that are not there yet. There are also reports of pinheads to cups in many fields in the Midcoast and Downeast. We are getting warmer weather today […]
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Mummy berry season is getting close for 2020. We have reports of bud swelling in different fields in the midcoast area. Time to start looking at your mummy berry plots. Please let me know how your mummy berry plot and plants are developing. Contact: Seanna Annis sannis@maine.edu, 207-581-2621. We have 11 of the 15 weather […]
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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 next spring on when the fungus is active in your field. You will need to look at the plot in the spring about 2 times a […]
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Hancock and Washington counties. Most growers are reporting dried up Monilinia cups and no new ones. I think we are reaching the end. If you do have a later developing field or a field with wet heavy soil, you may still have cups around this weekend. We had conditions from May 19 to May 20 […]
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Hancock and Washington counties Cups are drying up and dying in mummy berry plots in many fields. There are still reports of cups in some fields. I have found that when cups are starting to die off in mummy berry plots, there may still be some later cups produced but it is the last few. […]
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Hancock and Washington counties There was another infection period from May 15 to May 16 in some areas. It depended upon the local temperatures and rain fall length which varied across the region. Please take account of those conditions in your field. Please let me know what your mummy berry plots are doing in these […]
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Midcoast area I have reports of cups dried up and no new cups. Cups were starting to dry up last Thursday and Friday but were still present. I have no reports of cups in the midcoast area after last weekend (May 13). Most fields in this area were probably not affected unless there was a […]
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