This post includes a few of the key takeaways from the Cornell Storage Workshop, held by the Watkins Lab in Ithaca on August 16, 2023. Key presenters were Christopher Watkins, Yosef Al Shoffe, Jennifer DeEll, and Mike Basedow.
Tag: Gala
Tree Fruit Blog: Early Season Disease Management 2023
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…
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…
Champlain Valley Harvest Maturity Program Report: Week 6
Mike Basedow, CCE-ENYCHP, Northern NY This week I am reporting on Marshall Mac, Rogers Mac, Honeycrisp, Buckeye Gala, NY-1, Royal Court Cortland, and Ambrosia. This week’s samples were collected on Monday September 19th and processed the same day. Fruit were picked from orchards in Peru and Chazy. Sample size is 10 fruit picked for average maturity, from multiple trees, Read More…
Important Updates to Our Gala Storage and Harvest PGR Recommendations
Important Updates to Our Gala Storage and Harvest PGR Recommendations Dan Donahue and Mike Basedow, CCE ENYCHP Hudson Valley Gala producers are approaching a decision on ReTain application dates for 2022, and Champlain Valley growers won’t be far behind. We’ve experienced a hot, dry summer to date in the Hudson Valley but it appears that 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…