Facts for Fancy Fruit A newsletter for commercial and advanced amateur fruit growers

Crop conditions

July 19, 2024 - Included in Issue: 24-09

By: Chloe Rose Henscheid and Wil Brown-Grimm

What a wet July we have had so far.. and summer for that matter! The timing and amount of rain has made it difficult to complete cover sprays in a timely manner. Even with all of this rain and limited spray windows, all of our fruit crops have remained disease free. Our peaches and blackberries have been large and juicy! Our apples, grapes, pears, and watermelon are sizing and looking like they will follow suit. Everything is still a few weeks ahead of the last few years, it is looking like an early but plentiful harvest across the board.

: Watermelons: Fruit maturity

: Pear: Maturation

: Apple (Rosalee): Maturation

: Peach: First harvest – Ripe fruit

: Plum: Maturation

: Paw Paw: Maturation

: Aronia: Harvest – Ripe fruit

: Blackberry: Green to ripe fruit

: Black Currant: Harvest – Ripe fruit

: Apple (Pixie Crunch): Maturation

: Grapes: Veraison

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