Saturday, October 7, 2023

Half-baked research: Honeycrisp bitter pit and rootstocks, 2019 & 2020

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  Is this bitter pit? Yea, this is pretty half-baked all right, but meaning to look and summarize it for quite some time now, recently pushe...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

#ifruittree 2023 IFTA Summer Study Tour

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T o Nova Scotia, July 23-25. Oh yea, maybe I am getting older or just think I have seen it all, I was not particulary inspired to report on ...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Apple blossom density mapping using a UAV (aka drone)

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Precision Apple Cropload MANagement  (PACMAN) -- in whatever form it takes -- is " the topic of our time. " Unmanned Aerial Vehicl...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Dan Donahue's Honeycrisp Playbook (to mitigate bitter pit risk)

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I attended the Eastern New York Fruit & Vegetable Conference February 22-23, 2023 in Albany NY. Hosted by the Cornell Cooperative Extens...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

#ifruittree 2023 annual conference Grand Rapids, MI

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Carrying on tradition of posting about my  International Fruit Tree Association   ( #ifruittree ) trips, this time Grand Rapids, MI.  I twee...
Monday, January 16, 2023

PACMAN: Malusim vs. Fruit Growth model app vs. Farm Vision

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Precision Apple Crop load MANagement ( PACMAN) is the topic of our time. Seriously, it is . Although I have to be a jack of all trades (pes...
Friday, January 13, 2023

The FRUIT GROWTH (FG) app

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  The FRUIT GROWTH (FG) app by Joe Ferri – and mentored by his grower brother Tom of TK Ferri Orchard, The Blue Mountains, Ontario, CANADA –...