I suspect there are mummy berry cups across all blueberry areas, unless it is a very late field. The flower buds also seem to be at least 40% F2 or past that in development. The rain during the last two days produced conditions to cause Monilinia infections from Friday May 2nd evening to May 4th […]
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I am looking for crop fields with red leaf disease this summer, since one of my graduate students, Nahida Kabir, will be studying red leaf disease starting this summer and continuing in the summers of 2026 and 2027. We are looking for fields affected by red leaf disease ( see pictures below) with patches of […]
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We have just started to see bud swelling in the Midcoast region. The warm weather forecast for this weekend and early next week will probably get the plant buds starting to open. We are starting to get our blueberry weather stations out and hope to have them all out over the next week or so. […]
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