Source: NCSU COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 5/31/22

As I’ve said since my third year in NC, Memorial Day is often the time I begin to see GLS symptoms appearing on leaves. Rachel, our program’s research assistant and I took a stroll through our “Glomerella Gala” research orchard and in some of the untreated trees, we did see some early symptoms popping up. This is not to alarm you, because the incidence is quite low, but rather to serve as a “gentle reminder” that either you hop on the GLS/bitter rot spray train now or you may be calling me near harvest that you’ve lost most of your fruit to bitter rot.

I’m happy to provide the proof from our research over the past five years of the importance to tight fungicide intervals from now through harvest, but don’t want the importance of my message to get lost in the weeds. So, here are the take-home messages and feel free to contact me directly (sara_villani@ncsu.edu) if you’d like to see the graphs and charts. If I’m at a blank on what to post one week, you may also see them then….

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