{"id":2291,"date":"2015-03-09T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T01:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2015-03-09T21:17:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T01:17:13","slug":"georgia-pecans-and-peaches-get-ready-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/03\/georgia-pecans-and-peaches-get-ready-for-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia pecans and peaches get ready for spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently <em>AgFax.com<\/em> published an article by UGA scientist Lenny Wells on the current status of peaches and pecans in Georgia. \u00a0You can read the article <a title=\"AgFax.com  pecan chill hours\" href=\"https:\/\/agfax.com\/2015\/02\/24\/georgia-pecans-chill-hour-requirements-effects-bloom\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0In \u00a0the article Wells discusses the chill hours needed by peaches and notes that because of the cold winter the peaches have received plenty of chill hours this year. \u00a0He also pointed out that for pecans, spring heat units are more important than winter chill hours. \u00a0If we have a warm spring, the heat units will accumulate quickly and bud-break could be early; if it is a cool spring, bud-break will be delayed. \u00a0The article also discussed the likely need for extra N this year due to the quick hard freeze last November.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to check the chill hours at your location, you can use <a title=\"GAEMN\" href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiaweather.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.georgiaweather.net<\/a> for the University of Georgia stations within Georgia and <a title=\"AgroCLimate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agroclimate.org\" target=\"_blank\">AgroClimate.org<\/a> for locations anywhere in the Southeast (under Tools).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1409\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1409\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-91x138.jpg 91w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently AgFax.com published an article by UGA scientist Lenny Wells on the current status of peaches and pecans in Georgia. \u00a0You can read the article here. \u00a0In \u00a0the article Wells discusses the chill hours needed by peaches and notes that because of the cold winter the peaches have received plenty of chill hours this year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}