{"id":93,"date":"2015-05-01T19:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T23:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/?p=93"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:09:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:09:30","slug":"pecan-flowering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/2015\/05\/pecan-flowering\/","title":{"rendered":"Pecan Flowering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many pecan orchards in our area are currently in the pollination stage of growth.\u00a0Around the county I have seen many pecan trees with a good crop of flowers on them. \u00a0It is a good sign when the trees have a good crop of flowers on them.\u00a0 It varies with variety, but you could roughly say that if at harvest a pecan tree had 60% or so of shoots bearing nuts then that\u00a0would be a\u00a0real good crop.\u00a0\u00a0A rule of thumb that I have\u00a0read is that\u00a030% bearing shoots is a light crop, 50% bearing shoots is a good crop, 70%\u00a0or more\u00a0bearing shoots is a heavy crop that could potentially need to be crop thinned to help with\u00a0this year’s nut quality and next year’s\u00a0return crop.\u00a0 Nut cluster size will also be a yield determining factor.\u00a0 An excessively heavy crop load can put a lot of stress on a pecan tree which can increase the probability of a lighter crop the following year.\u00a0 We are a long way from pecan harvest and a lot could happen between now and then, but pecan growers like to see a good amount of flowers because that means\u00a0there is\u00a0the potential for a good crop this year.<\/p>\n

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Some varieties such as Desirable\u00a0will abort many flowers and self thin themselves.\u00a0 I have seen many Desirable trees this year with a 85% or\u00a0more of shoots with flowers, but many of these flowers will not go on to produce nuts because of self thinning.\u00a0\u00a0One reason that\u00a0Desirable is usually a consistent producer of pecans is that it\u00a0self thins its nuts\u00a0and does not get overly stressed and go into an alternate\u00a0bearing cycle.\u00a0 Other varieties\u00a0will retain a higher percentage of flowers that will go on to produce nuts than\u00a0Desirable will, but\u00a0they may not\u00a0put on as many flowers as Desirable does in the first place.\u00a0 We hope to continue to get breezy days with sunshine because these conditions are prime for pecan pollination.\u00a0 It will be around mid June or so before we get a\u00a0true idea of this\u00a0years crop.\u00a0 Nuts that were not pollinated and some nuts that were self pollinated will drop during the second nut drop which will occur sometime during the month of June.<\/p>\n

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Many pecan orchards in our area are currently in the pollination stage of growth.\u00a0Around the county I have seen many pecan trees with a good crop of flowers on them. \u00a0It is a good sign when the trees have a good crop of flowers on them.\u00a0 It varies with variety, but you could roughly say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-garden","category-pecans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}