Transcription of DISEASE CONTROL FOR HOME PLUM ORCHARDS
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DISEASE CONTROL FOR HOME PLUM ORCHARDS
Dr. Sharon M. Douglas Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology The connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 123 Huntington Street, P. O. Box 1106 New Haven, CT 06504 Phone: (203) 974-8601 Fax: (203) 974-8502 Email: DISEASE CONTROL FOR home PLUM ORCHARDS The diseases that commonly occur year after year in both commercial and backyard plantings of plum in connecticut are brown rot and black knot. These diseases develop in a fairly regular sequence depending upon the weather and the development or phrenology of the plum host, beginning at dormancy and continuing until fruit are harvested. As a consequence, a season-long program for DISEASE management is often necessary in order to harvest a high percentage of useable fruit.
2 Brown rot, caused by the fungus Monilinia fructicola, is the common and most destructive disease of plum in Connecticut and New England. The disease is especially severe in wet, humid weather.
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