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Originally Posted by travis
GG, you grew the varieties outdoors. What kinds of disease pressure were they subjected to, and how did each variety cope?
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Campari showed the highest disease incidence by far. Had some minor disease problems - some late blight, but Mountain Magic, Adoration, and Annelise seemed pretty resistant to whatever you could throw at them, but because of the high cost of the seeds, I made sure I was covered using Quadris fungicide. Campari showed the least resistance to cracking, sunscald, and green shoulder from high fruit temperatures. In the spring, because I had problems the prior year, I fumigated my soil with Vapam. My worst nemesis this year was mosaic virus disease from aphids from a nearby cherry orchard - and this year being the year it was, I just couldn't seem to get rid of the aphids - used Admire (neonicotinoid) , then Beleaf, and finally Matador (pyrethroid) which cleaned them up. But the virus didn't seem to touch any of my cocktail varieties - it only got my pink grape tomatoes.