Revised March 2005

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Contents

• How to use this guide
• Cultivar selection
• Application equipment
• How much pesticide?
• Pesticide safety
• Common insecticide and fungicide brand names and days between last application and date of harvest
• Measuring and mixing

Fruits

• Apples and pears
• Blueberries
• Cherries
• Gooseberries and currants
• Grapes
• Peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots
• Raspberries and blackberries
• Strawberries

Related pages

• G1917, Personal Protective Equipment for Working with Pesticides
• G6020, Fire Blight
• G6021, Home Fruit Production: Apples
• G6026, Disease-Resistant Apple Cultivars
• G6085, Home Fruit Production: Grape Culture

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Pesticide recommendations are subject to change at any time. Before purchasing any materials, make sure they are still approved for recommended use.

Missouri Poison Control Hotline
800-392-9111

All Poison Control Centers in Missouri are coordinated through Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital in St. Louis. This facility has a 24-hour Poison Control Hotline staffed by professionals. The Center will refer you to your closest Poison Control Hospital for treatment.

In case of accidental poisoning involving a pesticide, follow the first aid directions printed on the label of the container and consult your physician immediately. Additional information concerning treatment and course of action can be obtained from your nearest poison control center.

Pesticides in this publication are listed by common name. Some brand names usually available in Missouri are listed in the chart. Undoubtedly, other brand names are available. No discrimination is intended, and no endorsement is implied. Consult the labels for appropriate rates.

Fruit Spray Schedules for the Homeowner

Blueberries

• Dormant spray
• Green tip spray
• Pink bud stage and 25 percent bloom spray
• Full bloom spray
• Petal-fall and cover sprays

Blueberries
Dormant spray

Apply when buds begin to swell.

Phomopsis

• Material
  Lime sulfur

Blueberries
Green tip spray

Apply when leaf buds are showing 1/4-inch green tip.

Stem blight, mummy berry

• Material
  captan

Blueberries
Pink bud stage and 25 percent bloom spray

Stem blight, anthracnose, mummy berry

• Material
  captan
• Comments
  Unless mummy berry or anthracnose is a problem, an intensive disease spray program is usually not necessary.

Blueberries
Full bloom spray

Stem blight, anthracnose, mummy berry

• Material
  captan
• Comments
  See comments in "pink bud" stage.

Blueberries
Petal-fall and cover sprays

Apply first cover about seven to 10 days after petal fall, about every 10 days thereafter if needed

Plum curculio

• Material
  carbaryl
  or methoxychlor
• Comments
  Plum curculio larvae feed inside berries; infested fruit ripen prematurely and drops to the ground. Infestations of plum curculio are often more abundant when blueberries are near pome and stone fruits. Apply insecticides at petal fall and 10 days later.

Cherry and cranberry fruitworms, scale

• Material
  carbaryl
  or methoxychlor
  or permethrin
  or pyrethrins and rotenone
• Comments
  Insect pests of blueberry are rare in much of the region; scout before applying insecticides. Unneeded applications of insecticides can create problems where none existed.
• Days between last application and harvest
  Table 2

Japanese beetle

• Material
  carbaryl
  or malathion
  or permethrin
  or pyrethrins and rotenone
• Days between last application and harvest
  Table 2

Stem blight, anthracnose, mummy berry

• Material
  captan
• Comments
  See comments in "pink bud" stage.

G6010, revised March 2005