The new Inspire Super label has much broader fruit crop coverage than the original MP product. In addition to disease control on pome fruit (apple, crabapple, loquat, mayhaw, European and Asian pear, and quince), Inspire Super is also labeled for use on stone fruit (apricots, tart cherry, nectarine, peach, plum, plumcot, prunes) as well as grapes and strawberries. Note that Inspire Super should not be applied to sweet cherries.Inspire Super is a new premix formulation of the active ingredients difenoconazole (Inspire) and cyprodinil (Vangard). Inspire Super will replace the older Inspire Super MP, which has the same two active
ingredients, but were packaged separately (MP = “multi-pack”); the user simply tank-mixed the two ingredients. The MP product was only registered for use on pome fruit.
The new Inspire Super label has much broader fruit crop coverage than the original MP product. In addition to disease control on pome fruit (apple, crabapple, loquat, mayhaw, European and Asian pear, and quince), Inspire Super is also labeled for use on stone fruit (apricots, tart cherry, nectarine, peach, plum, plumcot, prunes) as well as grapes and strawberries. Note that Inspire Super should not be applied to sweet cherries.
Based on four years of field research trials on peach at RAREC, Inspire Super provided excellent control of blossom blight. Brown rot fruit rot control at harvest and postharvest ranged from good to excellent when subjected to heavy disease pressure. When Inspire Super was applied alone or alternated with captan, peach scab control was generally good but tended to be less effective than its sister fungicide, Quadris Top (difenoconazole + azoxystrobin). Based on one year of data, peach rusty spot control appeared good, but more results are needed.
Inspire Super has a 14-day and 2-day PHI for pome and stone fruits, respectively. A single application rate of 12 fl oz/A is labeled for pome fruit, while a rate range of 16-20 fl oz/A is listed for stone fruit. As with most site-specific fungicides, a maximum of two consecutive applications are allowed before alternating to a fungicide with a different mode of action (non-group 3 and non-group 9). And as always, follow all label restrictions.
