{"id":249,"date":"2018-02-01T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T19:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/?p=249"},"modified":"2018-02-01T14:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T19:55:03","slug":"pecan-pruning-clinic-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/2018\/02\/pecan-pruning-clinic-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Pecan Pruning Clinic &#8211; Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks so much to Doug Harvey letting us come to the farm and watch this pruning demonstration by Dr. Wells. Thanks to all who attended the meeting. I thought I&#8217;d share these photos with some of the methods we learned yesterday:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-243\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-007-e1517514378941.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-007-e1517514378941.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-007-e1517514378941-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-007-e1517514378941-104x138.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Having a central leader is the first priority for these trees. You want to start taking limbs off until you get about head high. Then choose one central leader.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-240\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-003-e1517514356515.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-003-e1517514356515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-003-e1517514356515-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-003-e1517514356515-104x138.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lenny destroyed this first tree (which is why I wanted him here). In this picture, he is talking about tipping that central leader at the top. You make your cut at the point where the buds start to separate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-006-e1517514389186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-006-e1517514389186.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-006-e1517514389186-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-006-e1517514389186-104x138.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once you tip that central leader, you go down about 4 buds, then shear all of the rest of the buds OFF of that branch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-241\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-005-e1517514366296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-005-e1517514366296.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-005-e1517514366296-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/02\/PecanPruningClinic-2018-005-e1517514366296-104x138.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GPTV wanted to interview Dr. Wells and found out he was going to be with us yesterday. I invited them to come film, and they interviewed Lenny and myself after the clinic. The show features pecans and their nutrition and will air in a couple of months. I will share the link to the video then.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks so much to Doug Harvey letting us come to the farm and watch this pruning demonstration by Dr. Wells. Thanks to all who attended the meeting. I thought I&#8217;d share these photos with some of the methods we learned yesterday:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pecans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}