By Dr. Camp Hand<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I talked with many of the agents last Thursday and Friday, because this week the state of Georgia is expecting a potential light frost in the Southern portion of the state, and potential freezing conditions in the Northern part of the state. In terms of what to do for the rest of the week with a light frost: if a grower called you today and asked what to do with respect to defoliation I would hold off until the potential frost conditions pass. Evaluate the crop afterwards, and then let\u2019s decide when and what to use towards the end of this week as it warms back up. The thing with a frost is that it is a contact issue. You don\u2019t want to expose immature bolls to that frost, potentially locking them up where they won\u2019t open. Defoliating 3 days ago would have been a good call if the crop was 60% open, but at this point I might wait towards the latter part of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In terms of a hard freeze, it looks like our friends in NW Georgia are the main ones looking at that situation. At this point it\u2019s \u201cdamned if you do, damned if you don\u2019t\u201d. If the temps get below freezing and stay there long enough (3 hours +), then the crop is likely done. However, we all know how weather forecasts can change so let\u2019s just keep an eye out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rates for the week: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At this point, with temps as low as they will be, thidiazuron isn\u2019t bringing much to the table. I\u2019d take it out of the 3-way this week and stick with Folex\/PPOs + Prep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Folex 12 \u2013 16 oz\/acre + Prep 42 oz\/acre<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am partial to Ginstar\/Cutout\/Adios with temps similar to this week. It does very well in cool temps. Some folks might not be as willing to use an 8 oz rate of Ginstar, so they can dial it back if they are uncomfortable. FYI I sprayed 8 oz Ginstar + 2 oz Dropp + 42 oz Prep last Monday and it looks pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ginstar 8 oz\/acre + Prep 42 oz\/acre<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Dr. Camp Hand I talked with many of the agents last Thursday and Friday, because this week the state of Georgia is expecting a potential light frost in the Southern portion of the state, and potential freezing conditions in the Northern part of the state. In terms of what to do for the rest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}