{"id":926,"date":"2017-05-21T21:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T01:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2017\/05\/21\/petal-fall-pre-discussion\/"},"modified":"2017-05-21T21:59:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T01:59:30","slug":"petal-fall-pre-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2017\/05\/21\/petal-fall-pre-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Petal fall pre-discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"mailto:Terence.Bradshaw@uvm.edu\">Terence Bradshaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 21, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Most Champlain, Connecticut, and Taconic valley orchards are at petal fall or quickly approaching it, which means the management needs will ramp up quickly- insect and disease management; nutrient application, mowing\/herbicide\/cultivation; and, of course, thinning. I\u2019ll be wrapping my head around thinning options in the next few days, but for now, virtually every orchard should receive a petal fall application of carbaryl or, if organic, lime sulfur to aid in thinning. Like every odd-numbered year since 2011, this looks like a heavy crop, and your best bet for a good crop <em>next<\/em> year is to take 80+% of it off now. This is not a year to be shy with thinners, but also recognize that foliage that developed during cool, cloudy weather, as well as trees that were drought-stressed last year, will respond more to thinners than non-stressed trees. On the other hand, sunny to partly cloudy, seasonably warm (not hot) weather like we\u2019re expecting this week reduces the <a href=\"http:\/\/newa.cornell.edu\/index.php?page=apple-thin\">carbohydrate deficit<\/a> in trees which is what drives thinning treatments, so we really can expect a fairly \u2018normal\u2019 thinning season overall.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I will reserve specific recommendations until after Tuesday\u2019s Petal Fall\/Thinning meeting in New York, which all are invited to and which was discussed in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2017\/05\/18\/cornell-champlain-valley-thinning-meeting-next-tuesday-523\/\"> previous message<\/a>. Wednesday looks like a decent spray day anyway, so I expect we\u2019ll have a better handle on things by then.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see many of you in the Chazy\/Peru (NY) area Tuesday,<\/p>\n<p>Terry<\/p>\n<p>Where trade names or commercial products are used for identification,<\/p>\n<p>no discrimination is intended and no endorsement is implied.<\/p>\n<p>Always read the label before using any pesticide.<\/p>\n<p>The label is the legal document for the product use.<\/p>\n<p>Disregard any information in this message if it is in conflict with the<\/p>\n<p>label.<\/p>\n<p>The UVM Tree Fruit and Viticulture Program is supported by the<\/p>\n<p>University of Vermont Agriculture Experiment Station, a USDA NIFA E-IPM<\/p>\n<p>Grant, and USDA Risk Management Agency Funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Terence Bradshaw May 21, 2017 Most Champlain, Connecticut, and Taconic valley orchards are at petal fall or quickly approaching it, which means the management needs will ramp up quickly- insect and disease management; nutrient application, mowing\/herbicide\/cultivation; and, of course, thinning. I\u2019ll be wrapping my head around thinning options in the next few days, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2017\/05\/21\/petal-fall-pre-discussion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Petal fall pre-discussion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2068,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[36708,107009],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ipm","tag-tree-fruit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"fruit","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/author\/fruit\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4nZlV-eW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}