Apple Disease Management: Part One – Early Season (Green Tip to Tight Cluster)
With the very spring-like temperatures, apple buds are moving along quickly. Most areas of the province are seeing green tipContinue Reading
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Green Tip in Apples – Are You Prepared?
Signs of green tissue are showing this week in the southwest regions of the province from Harrow, Simcoe and Niagara.Continue Reading
Don’t have (a) BREAK DOWN
The fall rains have initiated sour rot breakdown of thin-skinned varieties. As berries swell, they start to pull away fromContinue Reading
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Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) Update – July 29, 2016
See http://www.Ontario.ca/spottedwing SWD numbers have increased dramatically. More sites with SWD More counties where SWD has been trapped (+Grey ,Continue Reading
Apple Update: July 1, 2016
Crop Stages June drop is finishing up. Terminal buds have started to set in many locations across the province. FruitContinue Reading
Apple Update: June 22, 2016
Crop Stages Apple fruitlets are increasing in size. At the University of Guelph Simcoe Research Station, they are 25-35 mmContinue Reading
Fire Blight Resistance Survey in Ontario Apple and Pear Orchards
By Chris Burnie, Summer Research Assistant, Ontario Apple Growers Streptomycin-resistant strains of Erwinia amylovora, the bacterium that causes fire blight,Continue Reading
Apple Update: June 7, 2016
Crop Stages Apple fruitlets range in size between 10-20 mm with the largest fruitlets in South Western Ontario and theContinue Reading