Making Sense Of Weight Loss
Obesity is on the march. The numbers are plain. - 127 million adults within the U.S. Are ob…
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Botrytis
Late season fungicide options (= materials with short PHI)
At Winchester, the night time relative humidity has been still very high, close to 100%, in nearly every nights in the past three weeks. In addition, we have been observing rapid development of thunderstorms, pretty much every day in the past few days. I know I sound like a brok…
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Disease management
Rain rain rain... What should we do?
As if almost a week of thunderstorms and rains was not enough, it looks like we are expecting even more rain in the coming week. Hopefully, you had a good protection before the rain, but even if you did, rain more than 1-2 inches can wash the material away from the canopy. Pleas…
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Downy Mildew
A quick reminer on downy mildew
At Winchester, we had 8 hours of wetness observed on last Thursday, then there are several short rains/thunderstorms. Moreover, the night time relative humidity has been fairly high (> 95%) in the past few days. These conditions favors downy mildew development because downy m…
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Downy Mildew
Late season downy mildew and recent rains
I have heard from several growers that they are seeing downy mildew despite the fact that they have not seen much precipitations. It could happen because of the humidity, especially during the night. Warm, humid, and dark condition (just like we have been having during the las…
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Downy Mildew
Updates on the previous post (Downy mildew)
On the previous post, I mentioned that "At this time of the season, what we typically recommend is either mancozeb or captan mixed with sulfur to protect young shoots and leaves. The reason why I typically do not recommend a use of newer materials such as Revus or Phosp…
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Downy Mildew
Phomopsis and Downy mildew observed at Winchester AREC
We had a short shower event last evening; however, it was short and relative humidity did not stay high for a long time. Thus, it was not a major disease infection event, except, probably downy mildew, since it only take about 90 min under optimal condition. Speaking of downy m…
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Downy Mildew
Night time dew events
Since 9/2 or so, we are observing dew events that were wet enough to make our leaf wetness sensor wet almost every night. Since our sensors were located about the same height as the lower part of the canopy, leaves were probably wet as well. Each events were about 6-9 hours. …
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Downy Mildew
Disease risks from this weekend
It looks like we are going to have another wet week... The rain on the 29th was a very short one, but it was enough to make leaves wet for about 10 hours and the average temperature was higher 60F. It was infection event for downy, black rot, and Phomopsis. The rain on the 30t…
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