Cultural Tips
Cultural Tips are purposed to provide growers simple and applicable cultural-management options that coincide with the California Avocado tree calendar. Ranging from freeze protection, to pruning to pest management, consider such "tips" suggestive tools, in efforts to improve production. Please look for Cultural Tips in the majority of Greensheet editions, as well.
Cultural Tips
2011
- The Effects of Wind on Avocado Trees - December 9
- Reading Your Trees During Winter - November 14
- Managing Leaf Health for Better Production - September 16
- How's Your Fruit Set For Next Year's Crop? - August 26
- Inspect Your Trees for Possible Pests - July 22
- Are You Utilizing the Resources Available to You? - June 24
- What is Your Soil Type? - June 10
- Maintaining Tree Health Through Proper Irrigation - May 27
- Re-Thinking Your Harvesting Strategy - May 13
- Assess Your Irrigation Practices - April 29
- Using Tree Observations to Assess Cultural Management Decisions - April 18
- Assess Your Cultural Management Practices - March 17
- Evaluate Tree Health for Signs of Stress - March 3
- Applying the Tree-Growth Cycle in Cultural-Management Decisions - Feb 17
- Support Your Trees at Flowering - February 3
- Bracing Groves for the Cold - January 6
2010
- Developing a Nutrient Budget - December 16
- Pruning for Production - December 2
- Post-Season Management Evaluation - November 11
- Pest Watch- October 28
- Freeze Protection - October 14
