Pecans
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Fruit Thinning Many orchards will need fruit thinning this year. See a blog post from Lenny Wells giving details on how this process works: https://site.extension.uga.edu/pecan/2015/07/time-for-fruit-thinning/
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Soybean rust was found on kudzu in Jefferson County yesterday for the first time. Soybean rust has been found in kudzu now across the Coastal Plain. Because of this, I advise all soybean producers in the southern half of the state to make a fungicide application at R3 early pod set growth stage. Cotton leaf…
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Over the last years I’ve been working with UGA and involved in pecans, I hear many ideas from new and old growers on irrigation. Some say, “don’t water the tree so the roots will be stronger.” Others have said that irrigation is what makes trees fall over during storms. Well, I won’t say that both…
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August/ September Aphid Flare Ups In my last pecan update I spoke about how we had not seen much aphid or mite pressure yet but to stay on the look out. The week after that post the aphids hit us hard in Appling County, especially on sumners. I have seen several spots of defoliated trees…
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Topics in this months newsletter include water splits, pecan scab and wrapping up fungicide programs, insects, and water and nutrient management in August. Also, don’t forget to RSVP and attend the SE Georgia Pecan Field Day Southeast Georgia Pecan Field Day Water Split With as much Rain as we have had since early May it…
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Last week was dry but this week is calling for more afternoon showers with that being the case we need to continue to watch the weather before making fungicide applications. With that being said I have attached a post from Dr. Lenny Wells back in 2021 on Pecan Fungicides Rainfastness to assist you in making…
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Rain, Rain, and more Rain in the 10 day forecast. The recent weather conditions and the projected forecasts are highly favorable for disease development in Pecan. With the weather conditions we are having I wanted to provide pecan producers with a few notes to assist them in their current pecan management decisions in regards to…
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Blessings of the Crops Appling County Farm Tour Registration link: https://linktr.ee/greentree25
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At the beginning of the year it was believed that Hurricane Helene would put our pecan trees in alternate bearing. Although, from visiting orchards in the county the past week it has been noticed that some orchards have a decent amount of flower set and catkin. With this observation, be encouraged to check your orchards…
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Riding around the county I am beginning to see some trees breaking out buds. As we are getting on into spring here are a few things to be considering when thinking about managing your pecan crop this April. Also, see further in this email a newsletter from the UGA Pecan Team. Fertilization: Begin Nitrogen applications.…
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Reminder on Upcoming Meetings ————————————————————————————————————– Recap of Appling County Pecan Meeting We had a good crowd at this years Pecan Meeting. We would like to send a thank you out to our sponsors and to our speakers. See below main points from each speakers presentation at last weeks meeting. Main Points from Dr. Lenny Wells,…
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UGA On-Farm County Peanut Variety Trial Results Peanut Yield averages and Range across all locations % TSWV across all locations Level Number of Trials % TSWV Std Error Range Low High Georgia-18RU 3 13.2 2.9 7.5 18.9 FloRun-T61 2 12.6 3.5 5.7 19.6 AUNPL-17 6 11.4 2.0 7.4 15.5 Georgia-16Ho 3…
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Pecan orchards took a hard hit from Helene in Appling county. A third of the mature trees are down, at the least, and near to a quarter of the young trees did not fair to well either. Not only the tree themselves were roughened up but this years crop in Appling county has nearly been…