Kiwifruit Pest Management Guidelines
UC agricultural management guidelines for control of kiwifruit pests. Relative Toxicities of Insecticides and Miticides Used in Kiwifruit to Natural Enemies and Honey Bees (3/07) Kiwifruit Weed Photo Gallery, with Common and Scientific Names ... [... more]
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Bleeding Canker
Symptoms of bleeding canker first appear in early spring, soon after leaf emergence. Young canes exhibit "hooking" at the terminal growing point, leaf wilt, blight, and cankers. Externally, cane symptoms include dried, shriveled bark. [... more]
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Fruittree leafroller: Archips argyrospila
Omnivorous leafroller is the most common and damaging of the leafrolling caterpillars. Omnivorous leafroller caterpillars may differ in body color from cream to brown with light brown to black head capsules and resemble other tortricid species, ... [... more]
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Phytophthora Root and Crown Rot
Symptoms of Phytophthora root and crown rot commonly occur in spring and include reduced terminal shoot growth, undersized leaves, and an open canopy. As temperatures increase in summer, vines may collapse suddenly, or alternatively, vines may ... [... more]
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Pathogen: Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Foliar symptoms typical of a root and/or crown rot pathogen are lack of vigor, small leaves, poor terminal growth, open canopy, and yield reduction. Galls are the most obvious symptoms of crown gall; however, they are not always visible. Galls ... [... more]
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Bacterial Blight
Bacterial blight symptoms appear as brown, sunken lesions on the petals that enclose the floral buds. During bud expansion, the petals exhibit a yellow-orange discoloration that later becomes necrotic. The buds fail to mature and abscise. Leaf ... [... more]
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Nematodes are microscopic, true roundworms. Root galling is associated with root knot nematodes only. Root knot nematodes may be damaging to the root system if relatively high soil populations are present. Vines become slightly weaker, especially ... [... more]
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INTEGRATED WEED MANAGEMENT
Weeds reduce kiwifruit vine growth and yields by competing for water, nutrients, and space. They also interfere with low-volume irrigation emitters, reducing the uniformity of water output and efficiency of the system. Weeds must be controlled in ... [... more]
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More information on kiwifruit fungicides
UC Management Guidelines for Botrytis Fruit Rot on Kiwifruit. Botrytis fruit rot, also known as gray mold decay, is a soft fruit rot that can result in significant crop losses during storage. Symptoms of decay and signs of the pathogen develop as ... [... more]
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Oleander (Ivy) scale: Aspidiotus nerii
Very small, thin, light gray, convex, more or less circular specks on canes and/or fruit is evidence of scale insects. Scale insects attack the bark and fruit of kiwi. Heavy infestations affect the vigor of the plant and result in the presence of ... [... more]
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PERENNIAL SEEDLINGS
ISO = isoxaben1 (Gallery T & V;) PAR = paraquat* (Gramoxone) Spring/summer weeds 1 nonbearing only More about weeds in kiwifruit: GLY = glyphosate (Roundup, Touchdown) [... more]
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Boxelder Bug
Adults have dark, oval bodies with many fine red lines on the back. Undersides of wings are red. Nymphs are small, bright red, crawling insects. Feeding before bloom is known to cause bud and fruit drop, as well as fruit malformation. Watch for ... [... more]
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