Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Cold Injury in Caneberries



Temperatures on Jan 2, 2018 at 3 am in NC, SC and part of GA.  Source:http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/map/ 

Last week many areas of the southern US experienced some very cold temperatures and in some locations closer to the coast there was some significant snow accumulation.

We are monitoring our berry crops, strawberry crowns at Central Crops Research Station looked good late last week. The crowns were creamy white when we sliced them open.

I will be in Savannah at the SE Regional Fruit and VegetableConference if you want to bring in some caneberry samples, we can look at them together. I don't expect to see bud damage at this point, but there may be some damage to the canes.

I have posted information on caneberry winter injury several times in the past. Here is a link to all the posts, there are numerous pictures to help you identify potential cold injury.

https://teamrubus.blogspot.com/search?q=winter+injury

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