Prestige Early Red - Delayed"

Note that this crop of Prestige Early Red was planted and pinched on the same dates as the 2 Prestige Red crops. Lights were used until Oct. 3 to delay initiation and you can see the effect by comparing this to the other 2 Prestige Early Red crops that were on natural days. This crop is salable now, but only about 50% of the plants are showing pollen. Prestige Early Red is less vigorous than Prestige Red. In Sept., 2 sprays were used which worked well and compare this to the early sprays on the first Prestige Red. Then on Oct. 23, we used a low rate Bonzi drench (1/10 ppm) on this crop and compare the response with the second crop of Prestige Red given the same treatment. Also, note the larger bract size on these Prestige Early Red compared to the Prestige Red crops that required more PGR in this difficult year.