{"id":583,"date":"2019-10-03T09:36:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/?p=583"},"modified":"2019-10-03T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T13:37:22","slug":"dry-weather-is-not-helping-cotton-defoliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/2019\/10\/dry-weather-is-not-helping-cotton-defoliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Weather is not Helping Cotton Defoliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defoliants are not perfect in a normal year, but this is not a normal year.\u00a0 <!--more-->Defoliants were working really well until the middle part of September.\u00a0 It is apparent that 1 month of no measurable rain will have negative impacts on the the products that we use to get our cotton crop ready to pick.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-585\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2019\/10\/cotton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-585 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2019\/10\/cotton-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2019\/10\/cotton.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2019\/10\/cotton-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">cotton 14 days after cotton defoliants were applied<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here are some things you can do to improve the effectiveness of defoliation products:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Increase <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">gallons per acre<\/span> to 15 GPA to improve coverage<\/li>\n<li>Change <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">spray tips<\/span> from coarse droplet (auxin tips) to medium\/fine droplets to improve coverage and penetration into the canopy<\/li>\n<li>Increase <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">pressure<\/span> to improve penetration into the canopy<\/li>\n<li>Use the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">proper defoliation mixture<\/span> for the environmental conditions and crop conditions<\/li>\n<li>Consider <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">2-shot program<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">preconditioning<\/span> crop<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defoliants are not perfect in a normal year, but this is not a normal year.\u00a0<\/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-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}