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We know that some of you are still assessing the extent of the damage due to the late frosts we have seen in Georgia and South Carolina during the past few weeks. For those of you that have lost significant production this year, we want to send our sympathies and also reach out with some…
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Hello again, I just wanted to update everyone that I caught considerable more San Jose scale crawlers this week compared to last week (on untreated trees). With the increase in activity, I anticipate the first main peak of crawler activity to occur within the next week or so in Fort Valley. For the Ridge, I’d…
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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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