Mosbah and everyone else, In my experience with Honeycrisp on Bud 9, I had a few trees runt-out when I put them on a irrigation schedule that let the soil become too dry. I am new at all of this and let the soil get to the level of being moist (at 4” depth) but not wet between waterings. I used an Irrometer at 14" and cycled the trees between 50 and 20. In all my 40+ years of growing, this would be sound horticultural practice, but with Honeycrisp on Bud 9, this doesn’t work well. I believe Honeycrisp on Bud 9 must be watered past the existing roots, (to encourage deep roots) and then deeply watered again well before any signs of stress. I talked to a top Honeycrisp grower in Washington and he told me to “never let them get even slightly dry.” I changed my watering schedule to apply 1.25” of irrigation every 5 days in the summer, and the trees are doing well. My thoughts…
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Dr. Chiranjit Parmar < [email protected]> wrote: > I SHALL BE GRATEFUL IF ANY OF YOU COULD SEND ME THE ADDRESS OF THIS > MAGAZINE "HORTICULTURAL NEWS". > > THANKS IN ADVANCE. > > > Dr. Chiranjit Parmar > 164/3 Jail Road > Mandi HP 175001 > INDIA > 01905-222810; 094181-81323 > www.fruitipedia.com > Blog: http://fruitipedia.blogspot.in/ > > -----Original Message----- From: Kushad, Mosbah M > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 7:23 AM > To: Apple-crop discussion list ; Jon Clements > > Subject: Re: [apple-crop] Apple Bloom and Crop Potential > > Drought can be devastating, especially to honeycrisp on some rootstocks. > I am not in my office to look up the data, but the graft union of > Honeycrisp grafted to some of the Geneva rootstocks and Malling 26 Emla > dried up and split suggesting that the union is not very strong. The trees > are about five years old trained to the tall spindle tied to four wires. > The wires did little to prevent the snapping of the graft union. > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [apple-crop-bounces@ > virtualorchard.net] on behalf of Hugh Thomas [[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 3:09 PM > To: Jon Clements; Apple-crop discussion list > Subject: Re: [apple-crop] Apple Bloom and Crop Potential > > Nikki, > I don't have any direct experience with drought on apples but I'm guessing > the problems will be huge. I lived in California for over 20 years and 3 > irrigations in California during the summer is almost not enough for many > "drought tolerant" trees. I will be very interested in knowing how it all > works out for you. Best of luck. > > > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Jon Clements <[email protected]< > mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > You forgot to mention how A-Maze-'N-Apples is doing? > > http://www.goodfruit.com/a-mazing-new-technology/ > > > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:31 PM, <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > After a devastating 2012 when most of the northern Illinois growers lost > most of their crop as the result of the extremely warm March and early > bloom that was destroyed by late frost, we had a bumper crop in 2013. We > lost 70% of our crop in 2012! Despite thinning by hand, the trees over > produced so much that we had the bumper crop even after thinning. Since we > irrigate, we have not been bothered much by drought situations, but the > trees are still under tremendous stress due to all the weather extremes in > the past two years. > > Anticipating thinner bloom this spring, we also have a much cooler spring. > Green tip started around the 15th of April for us and we did not see pink > until the first week of May. Zestar, Liberty Snowsweet and Pristine are > now bloom. Some trees are very thin on bloom, and we still have others at > tight cluster. Right now we have varieties from tight cluster to pink to > bloom, which we generally have never seen. Normally we are at pink and > bloom in all four orchards at the same time We are anticipating a very long > bloom period since our daytime highs have been in the high 40's to low 50's > since bloom began on May 10/11. We have also received over 4" of rain > since that time as well! > > The crop load is very sporadic in the trees that are now in bloom and we > anticipated a light load, but never anticipated such a stretched out > spring. We are still not sure what the overall crop load will be like until > we get some warmer weather and see how much fruit sets. We had lows of 35 > and 38 Thursday and Friday night and the bees have just begun to fly. The > predicted temperatures for the coming week should bring out the rest of > bloom and the bees, with highs predicted in the mid 60's and lower 70's. > We have had 273 DD since March 30 and only 274 since January 1. We should > have about 5% +/- codling moth flight, but none trapped so far. We have > only seen only 24 DD since May 12 and are anticipating a long bloom period. > On the bright side, Zestar has a heavy crop load, just as it did last > season and will have to be heavily thinned. Pristine is sporadic as is > Liberty, but Snowsweet looks very balanced. Honeycrisp is very, very > sporadic, as expected. This season and next we will have to do everything > we can to balance the crop load for 2016. That is if the weather > cooperates!! > > We have had some winter injury to tree trunks, but nothing compared to the > vole damage! We had so much snow cover this past winter we could not get > back out into the orchards to put out more bait and repellent. The damage > is not as bad as it could have been, but still the worst we have ever seen. > Tree loss is at a minimum, which is the good news! We did lose most of our > peach trees planted in 2013.....they simply froze in our-10 to -26 degree > temps for most of the winter! > > Such is life as an apple grower! > > Dennis Norton > IPM Specialist/Certified Nurseryman > Royal Oak Farm Orchard > 15908 Hebron Rd. > Harvard, IL 60033-9357 > Office (815) 648-4467 > Mobile (815) 228-2174<tel:%28815%29%20228-2174> > Fax (609) 228-2174<tel:%28609%29%20228-2174> > http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com > http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.blogspot.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Win Cowgill<mailto:[email protected]> > To: Apple-crop discussion list<mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 11:58 AM > Subject: [apple-crop] Apple Bloom and Crop Potential > > Hello Apple Croppers- > > This winter was a tough one for growers in New England, New York and the > Mid Atlantic (New Jersey). > I am wondering what the apple crop potential is in your states, provinces, > countries this season? > > How was your bloom? Good pollination? Winter injury to trees. > > I know growers in Virginia had winter injury to apple tree trunks. > Massachusetts and Vermont light on bloom? How did Western New York fair? > > How did my friends in Quebec make out? > > Look foreword to your responses. > > Best > > Win > > > > Win Cowgill > Apple-Crop Co-Founder > Editor Horticultural News > Professor and Area Fruit Agent > New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station > Rutgers Cooperative Extension > PO Box 2900 > 314 State Route 12, Bldg. 2 > Flemington, NJ 08822-2900provinces > Office 908-788-1339<tel:908-788-1339> > Fax- 908-806-4735<tel:908-806-4735> > Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > www.horticulturalnews.org/<http://www.horticulturalnews.org/> > www.virtualorchard.net/<http://www.virtualorchard.net/> > http://virtualorchard.net/njfruitfocus/index.html > www.appletesters.net<http://www.appletesters.net> > > > [cid:93E0659F881D4B76B1B7B8133CB5FEA3@DELLXPS630] > > > > ________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop > > > > > -- > Jon Clements > aka 'Mr Honeycrisp' > UMass Cold Spring Orchard > 393 Sabin St. > Belchertown, MA 01007 > 413-478-7219<tel:413-478-7219> > umassfruit.com<http://umassfruit.com> > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > [email protected] > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop > > > > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4570 / Virus Database: 3950/7525 - Release Date: 05/20/14 > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > [email protected] > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop >
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