All Episodes

Season 7, Episode 8 - Early May Playbook

Season 7, Episode 7 - Tree Health Management

Season 7, Episode 6 - Spring Chaos

Season 7, Episode 5 - Fire Blight Threat During Bloom

Season 7, Episode 4 - April Freeze

Bonus Episode: SPARC Orchard Roundup Introductory Episode

Season 7, Episode 3: Green Tip Game Plan

Season 7, Episode 2 - End of Winter Wins

Season 7, Episode 1 - Introducing Dr. Sara Serra

Season 6, Episode 19: How Growers Beat Rain, Rot, And Risk For A Strong Apple Year

Season 6, Episode 18 - Dry Fall, Fast Maturity

Season 6, Episode 17 - August Harvest Overview

Season 6, Episode 16 - Harvest Coverage Reminders

Season 6, Episode 15 - Last One Before the Maturity Assessments Start

Season 6, Episode 14 - July Timing for Sprays

Season 6, Episode 13 - Last One Before Field Day

Season 6, Episode 12 - Start of June Update

Season 6, Episode 11 - Rain, Rain, Rain

Season 6, Episode 10 - Critical Timing

Season 6, Episode 9 - Spring Fling '25

Season 6, Episode 8 - Windy Days, Disease Pressure and Post-Bloom Sprays

Season 6, Episode 7 - Blooms, Blights, and Bugs

Season 6, Episode 6 - Damage to Blossoms and Disease Pressure

Season 6, Episode 5 - Cold Weather Warnings

Season 6, Episode 4 - State Horticultural Association Job Posting

Season 6, Episode 3 - Fruit Bite! Apple Scab Alert

Season 6, Episode 2 - Very Early Season Update

Season 6, Episode 1 - Introducing SPARC and Early Season Maintenance

Season 5, Episode 15 - End of Season Orchard Maintenance

Season 5, Episode 14 - And We're Back!

Season 5, Episode 13: Time to Take Some Samples

Season 5, Episode 12 - Pathology Professional Puts Down Partial Programs

Season 5, Episode 11 - Final Thinning Window

Season 5, Episode 10: Thinning Windows

Season 5, Episode 9: May Orchard Update

Season 5, Episode 8: Big Spring Decisions

Season 5, Episode 7: Disease, Insects and Thinning During Bloom

Season 5, Episode 6: Fire Blight Emergency - 4.15.2024

Season 5 Episode 5: Spring Pathology and Entomology Update

Season 5 Episode 4: Rapid Spring Changes

Season 5 Episode 3: Holding Patterns

Season 5 Episode 2: What Low Temperatures Might Mean for Orchards

Season 5 Episode 1: Introducing Dr. Shan Kumar!

Season 4 Episode 20: Program Update from Dr. Macarena Farcuh

Season 4 Episode 19: Pre-Post-Harvest Care

Season 4 Episode 18: Fruit Bites—Leaf Analyses and Plant Disease

Season 4 Episode 17: Why It’s Important to Enunciate

Season 4 Episode 16: Wacky Weather!

Season 4 Episode 15: Fruit Bites 6/15/23—Mid-June Challenges

Season 4 Episode 14: Fruit Bites—Emergency Thinning Advice

Season 4 Episode 13: Fruit Bites—Big Pathology Update!

Season 4 Episode 12: Growing Degree Days

Season 4 Episode 11: Fruit Bites—March in May?

Season 4 Episode 10: Fruit Bites—Cold Weather Thinning and IPM

Season 4 Episode 9: Fruit Bites—And...It’s Cold Again

Season 4 Episode 8: Fruit Bites—Hot April Weather

Season 4 Episode 7: Fruit Bites—Fire Blight Watch

Season 4 Episode 6: Fruit Bites—Early April Disease Management

Season 4 Episode 5: Post-Harvest Rot Series – Mycotoxins: Patulin

Season 4 Episode 4: Post-Harvest Rot Series—Bin Sanitation Research

Season 4 Episode 3: Post-Harvest Rot Series—USDA Blue Mold Basic Research

Season 4 Episode 2: Post-Harvest Rot Series—Rot Spores and Where to Find Them

Season 4 Episode 1: Fruit Bite for 2-7-2023

Fruit Bites 9: 10-18-2022 End of Season Tips and Reminders

Fruit Bites 8: 8.26.2022, Pre-Harvest and Post-Harvest

Fruit Bite 7: 7-13-2022, Mid-July Issues

Season 3 Episode 4: All About Bitter Rot

Fruit Bites 6 – 6.16.2022 - Yikes! Bitter Rot!

Fruit Bites 5: 6.6.2022, Orchard Highlights for Early June

Fruit Bites 4: 5.18.2022, Thinning Is on Our Minds!

Fruit Bite 3: 5.10.2022, Say NO to Fireblight!

Fruit Bite 2: 5.4.2022, Fire Blight, Apple Scab, and Mating Disruption, Oh My!

Fruit Bite 1: 4-28-2022, Introducing Minisodes!

Season 3 Episode 3: Early Season Disease Update

Season 3 Episode 2: New Herbicides and Lorsban Ban

Season 3 Episode 1: Post-Harvest Rots with Johanny Castro

Season 2 Episode 11: End of Season Maintenance

Season 2 Episode 10: Warm Fall Weather

Season 2 Episode 9: Post-Hurricane Harvest

Season 2 Episode 8: Introducing Dr. Long He, Agriculture Engineer, Penn State—plus current concerns for the season

Season 2 Episode 7: Mid-Season Concerns and Weather Station Installation

Season 2 Episode 6: Thinning Advice and an Insect Extravaganza

Season 2 Episode 5: Fire Blight Warnings, Early Insect Pressure, and Bloom Damage

Season 2 Episode 4: Grafting and Early Season Scouting

Season 2 Episode 3: Samurai Wasps and Parasitoids

Season 2 Episode 2: Winter Pruning Tips

Season 2 Episode 1: Winter Injury and Cold Hardiness

Season 1 Episode 8: End of Season Discussion

Season 1 Episode 7: Introducing Dr. Farcuh

Season 1 Episode 6: Early Harvests

Season 1 Episode 5: Orchard Entomology

Season 1 Episode 4: Rat Tail Bloom

Season 1 Episode 3: Frost Mitigation

Season 1 Episode 2: Cold-Weather Bloom

Season 1 Episode 1: Early Season Issues