Con, you may be interested in these articles in Fruit Notes (http://www.umass.edu/fruitadvisor/fruitnotes/FruitNotes.htm
):
http://www.umass.edu/fruitadvisor/fruitnotes/v71n3/a2.pdf
http://www.umass.edu/fruitadvisor/fruitnotes/v71n2/a5.pdf
My experience will Ethryl bordered on unethical. About two weeks before
a large, beautiful Golden Delicious harvest we had a hail storm. Fruit
sugar levels were too low by Washington state law to harvest so the
packing house fieldman recommended spraying Ethryl to raise sugar levels
before the
RE: *Potential Spam* Re: Apple-Crop: Ethryl
I gather by the above heading that Ethryl may be used as a male
enhancement product
Evan Owen
Autumn Hills Orchard
Groton, MA
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Haven't seen any talk on a bail out for apple growers, however they
are about to pass the biggest pork filled bail out bill ever. It
would be nice to spray a little ethryl on the bill to thin it down!
On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Con.Traas wrote:
Hello all,
I hope that I have not been
kelly...@metrocast.net wrote:
From: Jill Kelly kelly...@metrocast.net
Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: Ethryl
To: Apple-Crop apple-crop@virtualorchard.net
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 2:09 PM
Everyone seems to have a what's in it for me
attitude but not much of what can I/we do. Too much
Interesting variation on spelling of the material. Here it is spelled
Ethrel. To my understanding, its use here in Colorado is more to
enhance return bloom (I think by enhancing thinning in conjunction w/
other thinners prior to flower initiation -- but I could easily be wrong
on that).
harold.lar...@colostate.edu wrote:
From: Harold J. Larsen harold.lar...@colostate.edu
Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: Ethryl
To: Apple-Crop apple-crop@virtualorchard.net
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 7:10 PM
Interesting variation on spelling of the material. Here it
is spelled Ethrel. To my
apple-crop@virtualorchard.net
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: Ethryl
Although it is now 50 years back, I seem to recall that ethrel was used on
McIntosh crops in NH around the first week of September, to cause premature
reddening---but also premature drop
