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The 9th update for Tuesday May 10th is
as follows:
We had an infection period through most of the province on
Thursday afternoon and evening.
Many sites in Antigonish and Guysborough counties as well as
Cape Breton may not yet be at the 40% F2 stage.
Most of the province
is well beyond the 40% F2 stage. We are starting to see cups dry up at our monitoring
sites across central Nova Scotia, which means disease risk is decreasing, but
not totally disappeared.
For those that are beyond the 40% F2 stage and did not make
a fungicide application prior to the wet period, you have up to 72 hours to
make an application with Topas, Mission or Jade to prevent infections from
causing crop loss.
If you did make an application in the last couple of days
and you had a high percentage of floral buds open, you should be protected for
7-10 days.
Note: I
did see an open flower in a very early field near Springhill on Wednesday.
The forecast calls for intermittent wet weather from Friday through
to next Tuesday. There are still some viable
cups in fields, so there is a decreasing disease risk. If a wet period occurs an application should
be considered, especially in later fields (Antigonish County, Guysborough County
and Cape Breton).
The Next update will be Tuesday May 14th,
in the late afternoon.