Summer disease pressures

Last week we accumulated an additional 58 wetting hours to brinus to a total of 344 hours, 94 hr past the 250-hour action threshold for development of sooty blotch and flyspeck on unprotected fruit. There was an extended wetting periods with rain July 8-9 (8 hr at 69º). Total rainfall for the week at our AREC was 0.42 inches.