Author: Catherine Savage
Brown Rot : Feb / Mar 2021
BROWN ROT Getting to know your citrus postharvest diseases Brown rot is the term we tend to give to any number of brownish rots, simply based on the colour, and we never look further to correctly identify the disease. Unfortunately, from QC reports or pictures, it is not always easy to tell what the cause […]
Extension Briefs for February and March 2021 : Feb / Mar 2021
By Hannes Bester, Mathys Pretorius (aka MC), Wayne Mommsen and Catherine Savage Mealybug (S.D. Moore) Growers should be scouting for mealybug regularly, by inspecting underneath calyces and thereby determining the percentage of fruit infested. Where mealybug is under good biocontrol, infestation should peak during December in the northern production areas and during January in the […]