Friday, May 16, 2014: Our warm, humid, misty, wet weather is providing excellent infection conditions for bacterial spot of stone fruits. (Our current weather also favors brown rot infection, but you already knew that!) Bacterial spot can destroy peaches, nectarines, apricots, … Continue reading
Thursday, 8 May, 2014: The fungi causing brown rot blossom blight invade stone fruit flowers during wet weather when stone fruits are in bloom. A modest fungicide program is usually sufficient to protect stone fruit flowers, but under unusually favorable … Continue reading
Tuesday, May 6, 2014: In the Hudson Valley and southern New England, the time when sweet cherries are blooming is a critical time for managing X-disease. During cherry bloom, seedling Mazzard cherry trees growing in hedgerows and woodlots adjacent to stone … Continue reading
Thursday, April 24: The weather forecast is suggesting that we may have a 24-hr wetting period with mean temperatures slightly above 50 F from 7 PM on Friday through at least 6 PM on Saturday. The forecast is for scattered … Continue reading
Tuesday, 15 April: Brown rot: Remove last year’s brown rot mummies from trees: Even though pruning on stone fruits is often delayed until after bud break (especially on peaches and nectarines), it is important to walk through stone fruit blocks and … Continue reading
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