Publication 360, Fruit Production Recommendations: Tender Fruit

Excerpt from Publication 360, Fruit Production Recommendations 2010-11,
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Chapter 7 - Tender Fruit

1. Tender Fruit Nutrition
   • Manure for Orchards
   • pH Requirements
   • Leaf Analysis
     • Table 7-1. Nutrient Concentration Sufficiency Ranges for Tender Fruits (Mid-shoot Leaves in Late July)
• Fertilizer for non-bearing tender fruit
  • Table 7-2. Phosphorus and Potassium Soil Requirements Before Planting Tender Fruit Trees
• Fertilizer for bearing tender fruit trees
• Table 7-3. Actual Nitrogen Rates per Tree in Sod Culture
• Table 7-4. Magnesium Foliar Sprays
• Micronutrients for Tender Fruit
2. Apricot Calendar (PDF 100 KB)
   • Dormant (in late March or early April before buds swell)
   • Bloom
   • Petal fall
   • Shuck split (when about 50% of shucks have split)
   • Shuck fall (10-12 days after last spray)
   • First cover (10-12 days after shuck fall)
   • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need)
   • Prepick to harvest
   • Postharvest fruit treatment
   • Table 7-5. Products Used on Apricots
3. Sour Cherry Calendar (PDF 115 KB)
   • Dormant (before bud break)
   • Prebloom
   • Bloom
   • Petal fall
   • Shuck split
   • First cover (12 days after shuck)
   • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need)
   • Second cover (12 days after first cover)
   • Third cover
   • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need)
   • Preharvest
   • Postharvest
   • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need)
   • Postharvest fruit treatment
   • Fall spray
   • Table 7-6. Products Used on Sour Cherries
   • Growth Regulators for Sour Cherries
4. Sweet Cherry Calendar (PDF 105 KB)
   • Dormant) (before bud break)
   • Bloom
   • Petal fall
   • Shuck fall
   • First cover (12 days after shuck fall)
   • Second cover (12 days after first cover)
   • Third cover
   • Prepick
   • Postharvest orchard treatment
   • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need)
   • Postharvest fruit treatment
   • Fall spray
   • Table 7-7. Products Used on Sweet Cherries
   • Growth Regulators for Sweet Cherries
5. Peach Calendar (PDF 119 KB)
   • Dormant (in March or early April before buds swell)
   • Prebloom (half-inch green to first pink)
   • Bloom
   • Petal fall and shuck spray
   • Shuck split
   • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need during early green fruit stage to pit hardening)
   • Second generation oriental fruit moth spray
   • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need)
   • Third generation oriental fruit moth spray (late varieties)
   • Prepick spray
   • Postharvest fruit treatment
   • Fall spray (preferred time to spray for leaf curl)
   • Table 7-8. Products Used on Peaches
   • Thinning Peaches
6. Pear Calendar (PDF 130 KB)
   • Dormant
   • Green tip
   • White bud (white petals showing on flowers)
   • Bloom
   • Petal fall
   • Special spray (when monitoring indicates the need at petal fall)
   • First cover
   • Special spray (when monitoring indicates the need at first cover)
   • Summer sprays
   • Second cover
   • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need about mid-Aug. and early Sept.)
   • Postharvest fruit treatment
   • Table 7-9. Products Used on Pears
   • Thinning Pears
7. Plum Calendar (PDF 103 KB)
   • Dormant (before bud break)
   • Green tip (just as buds are bursting)
   • Popcorn (when blossoms show white)
   • Bloom
   • Shuck (when most of the shucks are off)
   • First cover (12 days after Shuck)
   • Second cover
   • Prepick
   • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need)
   • Postharvest fruit treatment
   • Table 7-10. Products Used on Plums
   • Notes on Plums
     • Heat spot
     • Thinning
8. Notes on Fungicides for Tender Fruit
   • Table 7-11. Activity of Fungicides on Stone Fruit Diseases
9. Chapter 7 - Tender Fruit Calendar PDF 401 KB
   
   

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