December 20th Penn State Extension Workshop on Crop Load Management
Posted: November 8, 2011
Duane Greene will be at the Adams County Agricultural and Natural Resources Center in Gettysburg, PA on Tuesday, December 20th, 8:30 am to 3:30 pm to give two presentations for an in-depth fruit school on Apple Crop Load Management. The presentation titles are “Monitoring Apple Fruit Growth for Predicting Chemical Thinning Response” and “The Chemical Thinning Palette of Options for Adjusting Apple Crop Load.”
To register, visit http://www.cvent.com/d/9cqjgg
or call 877-489-1398 (toll free). $55 fee includes an equilifruit disk, lunch and handouts; discount if register by Nov. 15th. Final date to register is Dec. 14th. Program details are provided at "Fruit Times Events."
Dr. Greene is a professor of horticulture at the University of Massachusetts. Areas of research include control of flowering, fruit set and fruit abscission, use of plant growth regulators on apples and apple cultivar evaluation.
The workshop also includes presentations on the carbon balance model and use of a new tool—the Equilifruit Disk—for assessing optimum apple crop load. During the afternoon, participants will move to Kuhn Orchards, Cashtown, PA for a discussion of “Pruning to Manage Crop Load.” This afternoon pruning demonstration is free and will be conducted in Spanish and English, with interpretations provided by Bruce Hollabaugh.
