{"id":722,"date":"2010-02-08T10:17:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/cranberries\/?page_id=722"},"modified":"2019-02-06T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:39:33","slug":"september-october","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/cranberries\/grower-services\/cranberry-management-calendar\/september-october\/","title":{"rendered":"September &#8211; October (Maine Cranberry Management Calendar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Early September:<\/strong> Still time for doing some <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/cranberries\/grower-services\/cranberry-tissue-testing\/\">Cranberry Tissue Testing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Throughout September: <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/cranberries\/grower-services\/insects\/red-headed-flea-beetle\/\">Red-headed Flea Beetles<\/a> (adults) <\/strong>They begin to show up in August but will often linger well into September.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frost Protection: Know the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/cranberries\/site-map\/frost-tolerances\/\"><strong>tolerance levels<\/strong><\/a><strong> for your variety or varieties, and monitor your berry color<\/strong> (go with the color\u00a0that the majority of your berries are showing).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Late September &#8211; October: Harvest Time<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Plan your harvest water-flow from bed to bed such that, if possible, water is not moved from disease-infested or weed-infested beds into clean beds or less infested beds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Post-Harvest:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Trash Flooding:<\/strong> Flooding after harvest is a good means of removing &#8216;trash&#8217; &#8212; <em>i.e. <\/em>dead cranberry leaves, twigs, and bruised berries.\u00a0 On a windy day, the &#8216;trash&#8217; will be driven to a corner or edge where it can be skimmed from the water and then disposed of at a location far from the bed.\u00a0 Dead leaves and leftover berries serve as a source of disease inoculum and provide habitat for insect pests.\u00a0 Removing this material may reduce how often you need to sand.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Post-Harvest Flooding:<\/strong> Ongoing research in Massachusetts (and grower practice) is finding that flooding for up to 4 weeks post-harvest suppresses dewberry plants <strong>and<\/strong> cranberry fruitworm.\u00a0 In some studies, mortality of overwintering <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/cranberries\/grower-services\/insects\/cranberry-fruitworm\/\">cranberry fruitworm<\/a> (in their hibernacula\/cocoons on the bed) was close to 100%.\u00a0 No reduction of the crop has been reported after several years of experimentation with this particular flood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early September: Still time for doing some Cranberry Tissue Testing Throughout September: Red-headed Flea Beetles (adults) They begin to show up in August but will often linger well into September. 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