Prunes
Bloom Management
Diseases
- Bacterial Canker and Blast
- Bloom Disease Treatments and Honey Bee Safety
- Brown Rot Blossom and Twig Blight
- Cytospora Cankers
- Cytospora: A Prune Grower’s Archnemesis
- Fruit Brown Rot
- Interplanted Orchard Hazards
- Managing Canker Diseases in Prune Orchards
- Prune Rust Management Plan
- Pruners Pocket Guide for Cutting out Cytospora
- Update on Heart Rot in Prunes
- Why was rust an issue in 2016?
Horticulture
- Blue Prune Drop
- Food for thought when planting a new prune orchard
- Interplanted Orchard Hazards
- Interpreting Soil Test Results
- July Leaf Sampling: A Critical Task in Prune Production
- Long Pruning for Greater Early Yields
- New UC Davis Prune Cultivars Prove Promising
- Observations from the Prune Rootstock Trial - 2017
- Options for Gopher Management
- Potassium Nutrition - Maintaining Optimal Levels
- Pros and Cons of Mechanical Pruning
- Prune Harvest Timing
- Prune Orchard Nutrition - Springtime Considerations
- Prune Rootstock Trial Performance - 2015
- Prune Thinning Calculator
- Pruning Prunes - Hand vs. Mechanical Pruning
- Thinning Prunes
- Tighter Spacing and Greater Light Interception in Prunes
- Trends in World Prune Markets - and What They Mean for California Grower Practices
- Update on Rootstocks for Prune Production - 2019
- Variable Bloom Weather Leads to Variable 2020 Prune Crop
- When to Harvest
- Winter Chill
Insects & Mites
- Aphids - Spring & Summer Management
- Aphids – Fall & Winter Preventative Management
- Eriophyid Mites
- Honey Bee Safety During Bloom
- Protect Bees from Pesticides using Bee Precaution Ratings from UC IPM
- Prune Aphid Management
- Scale Pests
Irrigation
- Irrigating During a Drought - Scenarios
- Irrigating Using ETc
- Irrigation Season Considerations
- Irrigation System Maintenance
- Irrigation: When to Start and How Much to Apply
- Missing the Target: Why you Should Irrigate Potted Trees Directly onto Potting Media
- Navigating Irrigation Technology Overload
- Northern California Cropping and Irrigation Patterns (Part 1)
- Northern California Cropping and Irrigation Patterns (Part 2)
- Potted Tree Irrigation after Planting: Getting the First Year Right
- Principles of Irrigating During a Drought
- Soil Moisture Sensor Selection is Confusing
- Techniques to Time First Irrigation Dates for Prune
- Thinking About Irrigating This Winter?
- Top Five Questions: Evaluating a Water Supply for Suitability to Irrigate Nut Crops
- Using a Pressure Chamber is Worthwhile
- When Should You Apply the First Irrigation of the Season?
- Why are some prune trees yellow in the spring? The Bicarbonate Blues.
- Yellow Prune Leaves in June?
- Zone Irrigation, Part 1 - Zone Irrigation Concepts
- Zone Irrigation, Part 2 - Designing a System
Weed Control
- Fall Weed Management
- Feather Fingergrass: an Emerging Problem in Orchards
- Increase Your Return on Investment with Post-Harvest Weed Scouting
- New EPA Paraquat Restrictions
- Weed Management Considerations When Replanting Trees in an Established Orchard
- Weed Management Tools
- Young Orchard Weed Management