At first glance, it looks like one of the walnut trees at the experiment station was toilet papered in the fashion of a Halloween prank! The tree actually was bagged as part of a walnut breeding project directed by Dr. Chin Feng Hwang. Brigette Williams is the graduate student working on this project with the help of several others includng Li-Ling Chen, Logan Duncan, Surya … [Read more...] about Walnut tree TP-ed over the weekend!
Archives for April 2015
GDD base 50 accumulated since April 1 = 196 http://agebb.missouri.edu/weather/reports/gddTable.asp Phenology stages according to the Modified E-L system http://door.uwex.edu/files/2010/10/ModifiedEichhornLorennzsystem.pdf … [Read more...] about Grape phenology and GDD accumulation
Every other plant in the lettuce rows was harvested today. the heads were weighed and counted. Later the second half will be harvested and then the raspberries in bags will be move into that space. … [Read more...] about First half of the lettuce in the high tunnel harvested today
We thinned the shoots in the bagged raspberries to 4 to 5 shoots per container. All of the raspberries lived through the winter although one or two may need to be replaced in the future. The work is done for the project funded by the MDA Specialty Crop Block Grant program. … [Read more...] about Thinning shoots in bagged raspberries
GDD base 50 accumulated since April 1 = 176 http://agebb.missouri.edu/weather/reports/gddTable.asp Phenology stages according to the Modified E-L system http://door.uwex.edu/files/2010/10/ModifiedEichhornLorennzsystem.pdf … [Read more...] about Grape phenology and GDD accumulation