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…
Tree Fruit Blog: Managing Peach Blocks with No Crop
Win Cowgill, Professor Emeritus Rutgers University Win Enterprises International, LLC 2023 has proven to be a difficult season weather wise, especially northern Peach growing states for peaches. February 4, minimum cold temperatures reached minus 12 to minus 16 in the NY Hudson Valley at some locations. Similar low temperatures in Massachusetts and Connecticut were observed. 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…