Jon Clements

@bphillips4149 Who’s doing the camera traps? Semios?

Sandhill Cranes keeping me company while I hang camera traps in Royal City today. Sound up for full effect. Magnificent birds.

Marssonina = Apple blotches

Got fire blight? Seems blossom protect the good option rotated with strep

Humph. Kerik Cox Cornell AgriTech a bit pessimistic about potential loss of EBDC’s etc. Biopesticides lend some hope for disease control.

Didn’t someone once say it takes a horticulturist to implement IPM?

Jon says B9 bitter pit resistant too. Oh wait…

A bit (no pun intended) about bitter pit on poster child Honeycrisp Sherif Sherif VT

What to do, what to do???

Cold hardiness and dormancy in a nutshell Jason Londo Cornell AgriTech

“Honeycrisp on life support in HV.” Unless?

Humph. The warmer the region the more bitter pit. Not too warm early in 2023. Explains why lower bitter pit. Mg/Ca ratio new to me.

Crop still tough to thin. Check.

Nothing normal about 2023 growing season according to Dan Donahue Cornell ENYCHP

@Plant_doc Good point, remember, I don’t read

Wow, costs 30 grand to grow an acre of apples? Liz Higgins, Cornell ENYCHP

Value added NAA application to Honeycrisp? I’m not betting on it, but🤔

Can you see that? Since 2019 NAA application per Sherif recommendation = return bloom

No wonder it costs 30 grand to grow an acre of apples! Says Jon. Sherif Virginia Tech talks PGR’s.

That production cost is WA. Ours is probably more? Prove me wrong?

Slide dump 2 from Liz Higgins. Get it?

Slide dump 1 from Liz Higgins