Fruit Update
Apples:
- Codling moth trap numbers were low across all orchards. No bio-fix date has been set. Depending upon variety, apple stage of development ranged from bud to pink to bloom starting.
Peaches:
- Scouts are continuing to note winter damage. Most trees do not have blossoms. A few trees have a couple of blossoms. Monitoring for oriental fruit moth began this week.
Strawberries:
- Scouts noted that some strawberries were starting to bloom.
Grapes:
- Scouts noting some winter injury and winter kill on some vines. Other vines are beginning to bud and leaf out. Early season fungicide spray for control of grape black rot and phomopsis cane blight will need to begin at the 1-3 inch shoot growth stage.
Brambles, Blackberries and Raspberries:
- Scouts are seeing winter kill back to the soil level on thornless black berries. Thorny type blackberries and all raspberries are leafing out normally.
Blueberries:
- Some varieties are starting to bloom. Scouts noted yellow leaves in one planting. Very probably the yellow leaves are related to soil pH being too high.