The 2011 peach harvest is complete. The Redhaven test trees yielded about 50 pounds pf peaches per tree, down from the 150 pounds average per tree in 2010. The field crew estimated about 40% loss of marketable yield to insect pests.
| Redhaven Peach Tree Weights (lbs) 2011 | |||
| Reference Tree Row# Tree# | |||
| Date | R2T20 | R3T29 | R4T15 |
| 7/15/2011 | 5.50 | 0.00 | 6.75 |
| 7/18/2011 | 9.50 | 2.50 | 4.00 |
| 7/22/2011 | 50.50 | 37.50 | 11.00 |
| 7/28/2011 | 8.00 | 14.00 | 1.50 |
| 8/1/2011 | 1.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Totals | 74.75 | 54.00 | 23.25 |
| Average lbs./tree | 50.67 | ||
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