Publication 360, Fruit Production Recommendations: Tender Fruit

Excerpt from Publication 360, Fruit Production Recommendations 2008-09,
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Chapter 7 - Tender Fruit

1. Tender Fruit Nutrition
2. Manure for Orchards
3. pH Requirements
• Table 7-1. Nutrient Concentration Sufficiency Ranges for Tender Fruits (Mid-shoot Leaves in Late July)
4. Leaf Analysis
   • Table 7-2. Phosphorus and Potassium Soil Requirements Before Planting Tender Fruit Trees
5. Fertilizer for Tender Fruit
• Fertilizer for non-bearing tender fruit
• Fertilizer for bearing tender fruit trees
  • Table 7-3. Actual Nitrogen Rates per Tree in Sod Culture
  • Table 7-4. Magnesium Foliar Sprays
6. Micronutrients for Tender Fruit
7. Apricot Calendar (PDF 56 KB)
   • Dormant (in late March or early April before buds swell)
   • Prebloom (when blosson buds show pink)
   • 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
8. Sour Cherry Calendar (PDF 115 KB)
   • Prebloom
   • Bloom
   • Petal fall
   • Shuck
   • First cover (12 days after shuck)
   • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need)
   • Second cover (12 days after First cover)
   • Third cover
   • Preharvest
   • Postharvest
   • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need)
   • Postharvest fruit treatment
   • Table 7-6. Products Used on Sour Cherries
9. Growth Regulators for Sour Cherries
• Ethephon to promote fruit loosening of sour cherries
• Cherry yellows virus and use of gibberellic acid
10. Sweet Cherry Calendar (PDF 101 KB)
    • 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
    • Table 7-7. Products Used on Sweet Cherries
11. Growth Regulators for Sweet Cherries
    • To delay ripening and improve fruit quality of sweet cherries
12. Peach Calendar (PDF 83 KB)
    • Dormant (in March or early April before buds swell)
    • Prebloom (half-inch green to first pink)
    • Pink through bloom
    • Petal fall and shuck spray
    • First generation oriental fruit moth 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
13. Thinning Peaches
    • Factors to consider when thinning peaches
14. Pear Calendar (PDF 83 KB)
    • Dormant
    • Green tip
    • Prebloom (as blossoms show white at tips)
    • 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.)
    • Table 7-9. Products Used on Pears
15. Thinning Pears
16. Plum Calendar (PDF 64 KB)
    • Green tip (just as buds are bursting)
    • Prebloom (when blossoms show white)
    • Bloom
    • Shuck (when most of the shucks are off)
    • First cover (12 days after Shuck)
    • Summer spray
    • Second cover
    • Prepick
    • Special sprays (when monitoring indicates the need)
    • Postharvest fruit treatment
    • Table 7-10. Products Used on Plums
17. Notes on Plums
• Heat spot
18. Thinning Plums
19. Notes on Fungicides for Tender Fruit
    • Table 7-11. Activity of Fungicides on Stone Fruit Diseases
      
      

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