More early season scab pressure

We have had three scab infection periods the past three days, with one of them still in progress with split wetting today. With these three wetting periods, rainfall at our AREC had totaled one inch and any earlier fungicide protection is probably depleted.

Some rust spores had been discharged with the warmer wetting period Apr 7, and others are fully mature. In areas where rusts are a common problem, it would be prudent to follow-up with a fungicide application that includes, as part of the fungicide mix, an SI for after-infection cedar-apple and quince rust control as well as for scab suppression.