Report from South Texas

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Overall a different year than I have seen here since I started growing in ground.
Hardly any fungal issues at all since I have only had around a quarter inch of rain since I put the plants in the ground.
Applied Daconil early and again a couple weeks ago when the evening dew was heavy as a preventative.

Very little pest issues to this point other than leaf miners.
I usually have some leaf miner activity every year but it usually isnt enough to even worry about.
It is pretty bad right now and I will do a spinosad spray in the next day or two.

Production is down from most years with the exception of the lone plant that I put in early as I do most years.
I decided to put off my main plant out until March 1st, being lazy and not wanting to cover them several times like I have had to in the past.

One example is Moskvich, which was very productive last year. My lone plant is 6ft tall and very healthy looking but it struggled with fruitset from the get go. Counted maybe 15 fruit on the plant where this time last year it had
probably 40 plus.
Another is Azoychka. I harvested 50 plus fruit from one plant last year and threw away another 20 or so as it became a stinkbug magnet.
I counted 18 on my lone plant today.

All of my plants look real healthy and I am hoping quality vs quantity will be the theme this year.

Hope you all have a great growing year!