Maine had two bouts of fire blight weather during bloom, one at very
beginning and second at very end. I suspect that the rapid shift to hot
days just before and leading into bloom (after slow cool period from bud
break to pink) may have shocked the trees and resulted in more straggled
There seemed to be a lot of late, tail-end bloom(rat-tail) bloom this year
especially on Paulared. Every tree had 3-4 clusters on borse shoots into
mid-June. We did use one strep spray on several varieties with this
bloom. Also it is probably not a good idea to neglect cutting root suckers
that
