Performing Floral Bud Evaluations on Honeycrisp Ahead of Precision Pruning Mike Basedow, CCE-ENYCHP, Northern NY I recently evaluated four Honeycrisp blocks in the Champlain Valley for their percentage of flowering buds so the growers could adjust their pruning practices. The blocks are described in the following table: Block Rootstock 2023 Crop Load Training System Soil Read More…
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2024 Intentional Delay of Dormant Pruning for ‘Honeycrisp’ & Other Important Biennial Cultivars (Fuji)
Intentional Delay of Dormant Pruning for ‘Honeycrisp’ & Other Important Biennial Cultivars (Fuji) Mario Miranda Sazo and Terence Robinson 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 are risking removing too many Read More…
Cornell University Apple Storage Workshop: Key Takeaways
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.
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: 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…
Champlain Valley Passive Bitter Pit Prediction for ‘Honeycrisp’
While bitter pit can cause serious losses for ‘Honeycrisp’, there are a few tools that can help us predict the extent of bitter pit damage we might see, allowing us to make informed decisions of where to put fruit from particular blocks. One such method is the Passive Method. Three weeks before anticipated harvest, Read More…
Cool, Fall Nights Challenge Fruit Storability
Randy Beaudry, Michigan State University Extension, with additional comments by Mike Basedow, CCE-ENYCHP The highly desirable Honeycrisp apple is also one of the most tender apples we grow. It has an extreme sensitivity to low temperature that we usually see after harvest following some weeks of cold storage. However, if the temperatures in the orchard are 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…
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…