Diseases
Weather conditions in the Willamette valley offer fungi and bacteria an
excellent habitat in which to flourish. Springtime conditions almost always
provide sufficient moisture and temperatures for diseases effecting blossoms,
foliage, and fruit. Listed below are the diseases one can expect to find year
after year on fruit and ornamental crops at our facility:
Apple: apple
scab, powdery
mildew, and Bull's-Eye
rot
Blueberry:
mummy berry , ripe
rot (anthracnose) and Alternaria
fruit rot, Botrytis
blight
Cherry: bacterial
canker, brown
rot blossom blight and fruit rot, leaf
spot, and powdery
mildew
Crabapple: scab
Grape: powdery
mildew and bunch
rot
Hazelnut: eastern
filbert blight, kernel
molds
Peach: brown
rot blossom blight and fruit rot, peach
leaf curl, and shothole
Pear: pear
scab, and
Pacific Coast pear rust
Lilac: bacterial
blight
Serviceberry: Rust
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