Prestige Early Red - 6.5"


This week's notes:

This Prestige Early Red crop is finishing within our desired height range. We sprayed once with the low rate of B-Nine/Cycocel and 3 times with Cycocel alone, which was more than we anticipated since it is less vigorous than Prestige Red. Compare growth of this crop with the first Prestige Red crop that received 5 sprays and a late Bonzi drench. Bract development on these plants is good. We knew that scheduling this crop to finish 11/13 was likely a little too early and they will be better plants in 4-7 days. Some of this is due to the high temperatures this fall that delayed start of color development.

This graph shows height progress (y-axis) plotted over time (x-axis). Arrows indicate applicaton of growth regulators, triangles are the actual measured crop height. The red lines represent the ideal height progress curve over time.