{"id":75,"date":"2015-10-12T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/?p=75"},"modified":"2015-10-12T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:55:10","slug":"cooler-weather-is-important-for-cotton-defoliation-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/2015\/10\/cooler-weather-is-important-for-cotton-defoliation-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooler Weather is Important for Cotton Defoliation Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 10 day forecast shows temperatures dropping into the 40&#8217;s by the weekend. \u00a0This will virtually shut down the development of most of our cotton crop. \u00a0Some growers have been waiting on the uppermost bolls to mature to squeeze every last pound out of this year&#8217;s crop. \u00a0if you&#8217;ve been waiting it&#8217;s probably time to pull the trigger. \u00a0Remember last year we had a November 2nd frost with temperatures in the 20&#8217;s. \u00a0Once something like that happens you can&#8217;t go back.<\/p>\n<p>Most growers will be using 2.0 &#8211; 2.67 pints of <strong>Ethephon<\/strong> + 6 ounces of T<strong>hidiazuron\/Diuron<\/strong> or 1.0 &#8211; 1.25 pints of <strong>Tribufos<\/strong>. \u00a0If we get much cooler then we would recommend preconditioning the crop with something like <strong>Ethephon, Aim, ET or Blizzard, Resource or Tribufos\u00a0<\/strong>applied alone. \u00a0 Then you would follow up with the first mixture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2015\/10\/2012-09-26-10.45.33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-81 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2015\/10\/2012-09-26-10.45.33-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2015\/10\/2012-09-26-10.45.33-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2015\/10\/2012-09-26-10.45.33.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2015\/10\/2012-09-26-10.45.33-225x138.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many growers have been waiting on the upper bolls to hopefully maximize yields.<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151001_094144237.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151001_094144237-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"Cotton Maturity\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151001_094144237-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151001_094144237.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151001_094144237-308x138.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}