Emerged apothecia were found
this morning at one of our mummy berry/Monilinia sites. There was another
report of an apothecia last night from else where in the valley. All of these were at a stage of
releasing spores.
Given the stage of the crop and
the weather forecast for next week, there is significant potential for
infection on all varieties that have reached the 40% F2 stage. At the two
sites I looked at this morning these were early to mid-season varieties.
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Looking at the forecast if
application does not occur before the rain event on Monday, growers
should take advantage of the short window on Tuesday, and apply product
containing propiconoazole (Pivot, Bumper, Tilt, Princeton,
Fitness etc) taking advantage of the post infection activity. The folly
in this statement is that we are looking at this forecast three days in advance
and we may not get a dry period on Tuesday to spray or the wind could be too
strong.
Hoping the weatherman is in correct, I'll keep you posted next week as we try and navigate these showers.
