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With the relatively cool spring weather we have been having, the first large peak of San Jose scale crawler activity is delayed a couple of weeks this year compared to last year. I expect the first peak of activity to occur within approximately 10-14 days from now in Fort Valley, GA. Following the degree day…
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A little later this year than last year, plum curculio are becoming active in middle Georgia peach orchard. Although this may be a weird and uncertain time of the year, if you have varieties at or near petal fall, it is time to start preparing your plum curculio management program. Based on what we are…
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There is another series of fungicide options that should also work for the cover sprays, and hopefully this will allow you to not use the DMIs in cover sprays. You could alternate SDHI (e.g. Miravis) and QoI (e.g. Abound) products as well, and this would give you more cover spray applications (four applications with two…
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Unfortunately, there appears to be a shortage of captan products this year. There are quite a few alternative products for bloom. Likewise, chlorothalonil (e.g. Bravo) products work well for petal fall and shuck split, and other products are readily available for pre-harvest applications. Sooty peach can be controlled with ziram, but it does little otherwise…
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We are a month in to the new year and I just wanted to remind everyone that if you have not already done so, it is time to start thinking about a delayed-dormant application of horticultural oil for scale insect management. The above 50°F weather makes for a lovely day, but the scale insects enjoy…
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A new Kocide product from Certis, Kocide HCu, has recently been introduced. As a formulated product, it is 50.1% metallic copper by weight. It does have a labeled rate for cover sprays, but at labeled rates, it is likely to cause significantly more damage than you would want to see. I am not familiar with…
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I just wanted to let everyone know that the 2021 peach guides have been updated and are now available online: https://secure.caes.uga.edu/extension/publications/files/pdf/B%201171_14.PDF The physical copies are being printed now and should be available soon. In the mean time if you have any questions before then, please let me know. Thank you everyone, ~Brett
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