{"id":551,"date":"2015-02-11T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/?p=551"},"modified":"2015-02-11T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:39:08","slug":"bloom-time-is-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/2015\/02\/bloom-time-is-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloom Time is Approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our normal peak bloom in middle Georgia is March 14<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Of course this will vary by variety and location.\u00a0 Another factor that affects bloom timing is late winter temperatures and chill hours.\u00a0 Chill hours are the number of hours below 45\u2070F that a peach tree requires to overcome dormancy.\u00a0 All cultivars (varieties) can be classified by the number of chill hours they require.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to match varieties that you plant to the normal chill hours received in your area.\u00a0 This varies widely across Georgia but figures can easily be determined using UGA\u2019s Automated Weather Network.\u00a0 You can go to <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.uga.edu\/\">https:\/\/weather.uga.edu\/<\/a> and pull up weather data from Blairsville to Valdosta.<\/p>\n<p>On the home page find a weather station near your orchard and click the icon.\u00a0 The 5<sup>th<\/sup> choice in the middle row is <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.uga.edu\/aemn\/cgi-bin\/AEMN.pl?site=GABY&amp;report=ch\">Chilling Hours Calculator<\/a>.\u00a0 Click Here and it will show you the chill hours for your location.\u00a0 It also gives some historical data that can help when selecting a cultivar to plant in your area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our normal peak bloom in middle Georgia is March 14th.\u00a0 Of course this will vary by variety and location.\u00a0 Another factor that affects bloom timing is late winter temperatures and chill hours.\u00a0 Chill hours are the number of hours below 45\u2070F that a peach tree requires to overcome dormancy.\u00a0 All cultivars (varieties) can be classified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}