Variety Selection
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Hi y’all! Aubrey Shirley in Tattnall County is doing survey to determine what scions people are interested in seeing more work on. More information is below. This is a survey for scion selection for an upcoming HLB rootstock trial that I am in the process of planning. I plan on installing around 100 to 150…
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By: Jake Price, Mary Sutton, Doug Collins, Jacob Kalina, Josh Dawson, Holly Anderson, Michasia Dowdy, Sara Curry, Ben Reeves, Tucker Price, Justin Shealey, and Sydni Ingram The Tango Rootstock trial has been through some environmental challenges but it is going strong! The Tangos, planted on 10 different rootstocks with 9 repetitions in 2020, endured an…
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I would like to welcome Dr. Dario Chavez to his new role as the UGA Citrus and Peach Breeder. While Dr. Chavez has been at UGA since 2014, he has recently taken on the new role of UGA’s Citrus Breeder. In this new role, he is expected to be of great benefit to Georgia’s emerging…
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Now that the dust has somewhat settled and the Sugar Belles have put on the first flush of foliage (Fig. 1), after being mostly defoliated it is apparent that there are freeze damage differences between the trees on 4 different rootstocks. The trees are snuggly located between windbreaks to the west and north and are…
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After 5 nights between 16 and 22 degrees from Dec. 24-28, everything suffered from cold damage at the Citrus Variety and Rootstock Trials at JL Lomax Elementary School. This freeze event has by far been the biggest challenge that the northern Florida and southern Georgia citrus industry has faced in the last 10 years. I…