{"id":685,"date":"2017-01-12T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/?p=685"},"modified":"2017-01-12T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:40:38","slug":"low-chill-strategies-for-georgia-peach-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/2017\/01\/low-chill-strategies-for-georgia-peach-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Chill Strategies for Georgia Peach Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we near that magical chill hour cut off date of February 15th we once again find ourselves talking about what to do about low chill. \u00a0Last season (2015 &#8211; 2016) was historically low and this season is not shaping up to be much better.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Greg Reighard, Clemson University, recently spoke to southeastern peach growers about options to overcome this low chill year. \u00a0Below you can find his summary of what we can do to mitigate the effects of low chill hours, units, portions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-687\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/bo4g7wh3hm0mmrk\/Savannah_2016-17%20Dormancy%20OptionsFinal.jpg?dl=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-687 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/01\/Savannah_2016-17-Dormancy-OptionsFinal-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/01\/Savannah_2016-17-Dormancy-OptionsFinal-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/01\/Savannah_2016-17-Dormancy-OptionsFinal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/01\/Savannah_2016-17-Dormancy-OptionsFinal-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/01\/Savannah_2016-17-Dormancy-OptionsFinal-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/01\/Savannah_2016-17-Dormancy-OptionsFinal.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Management Strategies Following Inadequate Chill Hours<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At this point it does not matter what you call them. \u00a0We don&#8217;t have enough of either. \u00a0We plan to have a short informal meeting to discuss this topic so please let me know if you would like to be notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we near that magical chill hour cut off date of February 15th we once again find ourselves talking about what to do about low chill. \u00a0Last season (2015 &#8211; 2016) was historically low and this season is not shaping up to be much better.<\/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-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}