[QUOTE=decherdt;473847][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I have been keeping up a fruit set count in my "2015 pictures" album. Except for the cherry types and saladettes, almost all of the fruit is set in the bottom half of the our vines, and none at all on our one Wes. Missed (dropped) a couple of big, eye level "generations" pretty much across the board, and I'm not even trying for Brandywines. I did have to treat a big flush of EB, wonder if it could be contributory to blossom drop? Don't recall having to deal with a FT. of rain and its humidity in a month before either.[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]

This is almost exactly what I'm seeing with my plants. My cherries are doing very well, but the others are kind of meh.

I do seem so have some thrip issues, too. My poor plants.

[QUOTE=Mallori;474465]This is almost exactly what I'm seeing with my plants. My cherries are doing very well, but the others are kind of meh.

I do seem so have some thrip issues, too. My poor plants.[/QUOTE]

What are the high temps there now?

Ginny

Our weather has been crazy. Very very wet with temps bouncing all over the place. Yesterday was hot and today was about 50* when I left my house at 11am

Thats what I got! The flower stems turning yellow and/or brown and then dropping.

What is this?

Ozone - could be thrips. Read the recent posts about this. They not only destroy flowers and future tomatoes, but, they are a very efficient vector for TSVW and if you get that, the plant is done .

Temps have been mostly in the mid 80's, hit 90 one time, 60 another time. Fingers crossed, I still hope & figure its plain old blossom drop related mostly to weather, and me trying to get 2 lb beefsteaks to yield on the [STRIKE]shoulder[/STRIKE] cusp of tornado alley. Any body else local get 50- 60+mph winds a couple of times? Drop happens at some time every year. The cherries and a few others are still setting. Mid June and July temps won't drop under 75 and I'll keep a row of cherries just or fun, pull vines and plant black eye peas everywhere else. Working up my list for next Spring, too. [I]Fewer, further apart, No tomatoes bigger than my head, etc[/I]

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[QUOTE=Dewayne mater;474491]Ozone - could be thrips. Read the recent posts about this. They not only destroy flowers and future tomatoes, but, they are a very efficient vector for TSVW and if you get that, the plant is done .[/QUOTE]

Oh no. I will test when I get home.
What are you doing to control them and do thrips affect any fruit already set?

Oh, I have them and have had them that I know of for 3 weeks. I suspect I had them earlier because I started noticing blossom drop and then started looking for them. In the future, I'm going to randomly look for them and perhaps put out yellow sticky traps to get an indicator of when they arrive. As for fruit that is set, the answer is yes:[url]http://www.clemson.edu/public/regulatory/plant_industry/pest_nursery_programs/plant_prob_clinic/fact_sheet_folder/tswv.html[/url]
Also, they can give your plant TSWV, then its church. So, they are a serious pest.

Dealing with them? There are a couple of threads on that circulating now. The article I just linked points out the using pyrethroids, something I've done with permetherin (sp?) is bad because it wipes out their natural predators. I would say ideally, you would use natural predators and allow them to keep the balance, but, I don't have any of the known predators and haven't found a place to order them, yet. Some say the traps work to reduce the population. Neem - nyet. This year using a bactericide identified on Tville has reduced, but never got close to eliminating them.

Dewayne Mater

I got these evil bugs. Ugh!

This is what I got. I started to notice 2 weeks ago some blossom drop, not bad though and it seemed maybe because its been so cold and wet out. That seemed a stretch but I had nothing else to go on so I left it as is. I regret not knowing now. Im afraid I will lose it all this season.

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I have had similar to the pictures above. My plants loaded up in the lower to mid levels, and now most are 4-6 feet tall, and not many blossoms. I either have thrips as suggested, or the fruit set is heavy enough to cause fewer blossoms? I am going to check for thrips tonight. Spider mites have already shown up, not sure why as it has been wet and cool.

Is everyone excited about MORE RAIN??? I was starting to get worried, it hadn't rained for several hours yesterday. Today more rain is forecast.

[QUOTE=Mallori;475977]Is everyone excited about MORE RAIN??? I was starting to get worried, it hadn't rained for several hours yesterday. Today more rain is forecast.[/QUOTE]

It's starting to sound like Florida during the rainy season there. I used to spend quite a bit of time in Quitman, Tx and the surrounding area in April/May/June each year taking horse photos and it never rained like that when I was there.

Ginny

[QUOTE=Mallori;475977]Is everyone excited about MORE RAIN??? I was starting to get worried, it hadn't rained for several hours yesterday. Today more rain is forecast.[/QUOTE]

I asked my wife to read this just so she could laugh out loud too :)

I emptied 2.5" of rain from our new rain gauge this morning. I have emptied at least 2.5 inches of rain 4 times since Friday the 22 through today Wednesday 27th. It has rained well over 30 inches down here on the Johnson/Hill County line this month.

[QUOTE=AlittleSalt;475985]I asked my wife to read this just so she could laugh out loud too :)

I emptied 2.5" of rain from our new rain gauge this morning. I have emptied at least 2.5 inches of rain 4 times since Friday the 22 through today Wednesday 27th. It has rained well over 30 inches down here on the Johnson/Hill County line this month.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that is more than the typical rain in Florida during the rainy season or anywhere. Prayers and good thoughts to everyone with all the rain.

Ginny