Good Fruit Grower published this article in February showing the benefits of Cinnerate and other organic products for post-harvest disease suppression. These products consistently perform as well as the conventional standard. If your fruit is entering long season storage, Cinnerate will significantly reduce storage loss due to disease.
Dr. Amiri has evaluated Cinnerate for reducing post-harvest rots for 3 or 4 years, and it performed exceedingly well - consistently performing as well as some of the best conventional chemistries. For growers whose fruit enters long term storage, this single application could have the largest ROI of any single spray. This effort started with reading a white paper from the University of Naples ("Biological control of post-harvest diseases on apple by using plant essential oils and Trichoderma culture filtrates”) and a refrigerator. After 3 months, there was a distinct differnece in infection between treated and untreated, and this guided our investment to validate with Dr. Amiri and the team at WSU.