Sorry no pictures for this post, but thought I would share some recent observations. The recent rains and warm night on Friday/Saturday brought out two diseases on annual bluegrass earlier than we typically experience at the research farm in North Brunswick NJ (Hort Farm No. 2). Saturday morning, our graduate student found nickel- to quarter-sized spots […]
Archives for May 2017
May 2, 2017 Jim Murphy
Some Early Disease Activity
Sorry no pictures for this post, but thought I would share some recent observations. The recent rains and warm night on Friday/Saturday brought out two diseases on annual bluegrass earlier than we typically experience at the research farm in North Brunswick NJ (Hort Farm No. 2). Saturday morning, our graduate student found nickel- to quarter-sized spots […]
May 1, 2017 Dave Schmitt
Tree Fruit IPM Report for May 1, 2017
Fruit IPM for 5/1/17
Peach
Oriental Fruit Moth: First generation timings are updated below.
| OFM 1st Generation Timing | |||
| Insecticide Type | |||
| County/Region | Degree Days by 5/1 base 45 | Conventional
170-200, 350-375 |
Diamide
100-150, 300-350 |
| Gloucester – Southern | 390 | 1st – past
2nd – past |
1st – past
2nd – past |
| Hunterdon – Northern | 241 | 1st – past
2nd –5/9-5/10 |
1st – past
2nd – 5/6-5/7 |
