Līga Astra Kalniņa & Kerik Cox Cornell University Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section Assessing the upcoming 2023 apple scab season. Winter seemed to come late in early March, and only for a few weeks and with intermittent snow cover at best. Snow cover is effectively non-existent, and while it’s still cool in the evenings, Read More…
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Tree Fruit Blog: Intentional Delay of Dormant Pruning for ‘Honeycrisp’ & Other Important Biennial Cultivars (Fuji)
Mario Miranda Sazo, Fruit Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Lake Ontario Fruit Program Terence Robinson, Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Horticulture Section Cornell AgriTech When pruning a Honeycrisp block without knowing the floral bud percentage (% of floral buds in a 100 bud sample of spurs from randomly selected shoots in a Honeycrisp block), you Read More…
Tree Fruit Blog: Performing Floral Bud Evaluations on Honeycrisp Ahead of Precision Pruning
Mike Basedow, Tree Fruit Extension Specialist, CCE-ENYCHP, Northern NY I recently evaluated two Honeycrisp blocks in the Champlain Valley for their percentage of flowering buds so the growers could adjust their pruning practices. The first block is a mature planting on M.26 rootstock, trained to a vertical axis system. Bloom was heavy in this block in Read More…
Tree Fruit: Apple Cold Hardiness Research Update
Jason P. Londo, Cornell University; Erica Casagrande Biasuz, Cornell University; Michael Basedow, CCE ENYCHP The goal of the Londo research program is to help adapt New York fruit crop production to climate change. As a part of that effort, we are working to understand how winter temperatures impact apple rootstocks and scions, specifically how the Read More…
2022 Champlain Valley Rescue Thinning Recommendations
Dr. Terence Robinson, Cornell AgriTech, Geneva, New York and Mike Basedow, CCE-ENYCHP, Champlain Valley, New York The following is a summary of yesterday’s meeting. The recording is available on our team YouTube page here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jo3mUlMk9o&feature=youtu.be From visiting orchards early this week, and from the results of our fruit growth model measurements, we expect that good Read More…