{"id":196,"date":"2014-03-07T13:46:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/?p=196"},"modified":"2014-03-07T13:47:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:47:44","slug":"new-southern-highbush-pinnacle-us-508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/2014\/03\/new-southern-highbush-pinnacle-us-508\/","title":{"rendered":"New Southern Highbush: \u2018Pinnacle\u2019 (US 508)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jim Ballington, North Carolina State University blueberry breeder, announced the advanced selection \u2018Pinnacle\u2019 (US 508) is available for trials. \u2018Pinnacle is a collaboration between NCSU and USDA-ARS and is a cross of NC 1408 (\u2018Elizabeth\u2019 x US 75) X \u2018Bluechip\u2019 made by A. D. Draper at Beltsville, MD. \u2018Pinnacle\u2019 has demonstrated an early ripening, large sized, light blue, and firm fruit. \u2018Pinnacle\u2019 is estimated to have 500-600 hrs chilling and has been evaluated in highbush blueberry soils of eastern NC. Dr. Ballington suggests that \u2018Pinnacle\u2019 would perform well in Southern Georgia<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/files\/2014\/03\/Pinnacle-US-508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-204\" alt=\"Southern Highbush w\/500-600 hrs Chill Requirement \" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/files\/2014\/03\/Pinnacle-US-508-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/files\/2014\/03\/Pinnacle-US-508-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/files\/2014\/03\/Pinnacle-US-508-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/files\/2014\/03\/Pinnacle-US-508.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Southern Highbush &#8216;Pinnacle&#8217; (US 508) w\/500-600 hrs Chill Requirement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>pine bark culture.<\/p>\n<p>If \u2018Pinnacle\u2019 peaks your interests contact Dr. Ballington at jrbsrb@ncsu.edu. Growers are required to sign a Trialing Agreement with NCSU and there is a $5.00 charge on each plant to cover propagation costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jim Ballington, North Carolina State University blueberry breeder, announced the advanced selection \u2018Pinnacle\u2019 (US 508) is available for trials. \u2018Pinnacle is a collaboration between NCSU and USDA-ARS and is a cross of NC 1408 (\u2018Elizabeth\u2019 x US 75) X \u2018Bluechip\u2019 made by A. D. Draper at Beltsville, MD. \u2018Pinnacle\u2019 has demonstrated an early ripening, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-variety-selection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/blueberry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}