{"id":1936,"date":"2021-07-20T09:20:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2021-07-21T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T10:55:06","slug":"low-input-variety-trial-in-southeast-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/2021\/07\/low-input-variety-trial-in-southeast-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Input Variety Trial in Southeast Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last year we received a grant from the Pecan Commodity Commission to plant a low-input pecan variety trial for long-term evaluation of scab in Southeast Georgia. The location of planting is at the University of Georgia Vidalia Onion Research Farm. I\u2019m excited to say that we are finished with our initial planting and irrigation set up. Thanks to pecan growers, pecan industry, and UGA county agents for assisting in preparing land, marking trees, planting trees, installing irrigation and planting demonstration plots. This orchard is a great support to the addition of many pecan acres in Southeast Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started planting on February 2nd and completed the (approximately) 140 trees on five acres by the next day. Instead of planting trees together, all varieties are mixed in the orchard. This allows us the long-term evaluation for many years to come. The varieties planted are: Avalon<\/em>, Eclipse<\/em>, Excel<\/em>, Kanza<\/em>, McMillan<\/em>, Lakota<\/em>, and Sumner<\/em>. Seedlings were planted for any future variety. The pollinators are Cape Fear <\/em>and Gafford<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n