Disease risk event from this Monday-Tuesday

I had a meeting and did not able to post it in timely manner, but there was a wet event on Monday-Tuesday this week.  It was 14+ hours of wetness… Read more

Disease risk events from this weekend

A line of rain went through Winchester area resulted in 10 h of wetness with an average of 69F.  It was downy and low Botrytis risk event.  Please refer to… Read more

Note on sour rot

As the harvest approaches (plus recent rain events in some part of VA), I am receiving several emails on sour rot.  It is often confused, but not all late season… Read more

Last stretch spray consideration

Due to the rain event over the weekend, many people are concerned about protection for next week or two before the harvest.  At this point, the tools are rather limited… Read more

Recent disease events

I was away for several weeks for a series of meetings, and of course things happen when you are not around… 7/28: 9 hours of wetness, around 66F (low Botrytis… Read more

Disease risk events from the weekend

As we expected, Winchester area had a wet weekend.  We had to major rain events, which resulted in 11 hours and 10 hours of wetness, both are in upper 60F… Read more

Diease risks from yesterday

Winchester area received a shower yesterday, resulted in 5+ hours of wetness in lower 70F.  It was an infection risk event for downy mildew, and very low infection risk event… Read more

Disease risk events from this weekend

Winchester area had a wet weekend.  We ended up having 9+ and 16+ hours of wet events, and both of them are in upper 60F.  Needless to say, these were… Read more

Disease risk event from today

After 13+ hours of wetness on the 13th-14th rain event, we had another wetness event starting from last night.  It resulted in 11 hours of wetness with an average temperature… Read more

Another wet event from yesterday

Winchester area received a shower yesterday (11th, very early in the morning) which resulted in ~7 hours of wetness with an average temperature of high 60F.  It was risk event… Read more
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