Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu Forecasts for fungicide applications in watermelon and cantaloupes for the 2010 season are set to begin on Friday, June 4. If you have not received forecasts in the… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu Gummy stem blight on watermelon is widespread on Delmarva now in fields that have been repeatedly cropped to watermelons and where the disease has been introduced on plant… Continue Reading
Bob Mulrooney, Extension Plant Pathologist; bobmul@udel.edu Gummy stem blight was diagnosed on watermelon and cantaloupe transplants this week from Sussex County. Nancy found abundant fruiting bodies of the fungus and plenty of spores. The cotyledons were black and the fungus… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu The weather based forecasting program MELCAST on watermelon will begin in the next week. MELCAST is a weather-based spray scheduling program for anthracnose and gummy stem blight of… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu The weather based forecasting program MELCAST has begun for 2008. MELCAST is a weather-based spray scheduling program for anthracnose and gummy stem blight of watermelon. If you received… Continue Reading
