Enduring Red
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This week's notes:
This crop of Enduring Red has finished in really good shape and compared to most of the other varieties has been easy to control. Like Enduring Pink, Enduring Red is not very vigorous, but has the potential to stretch later in the crop as can be seen here. With varieties like this, we like the strategy of planting early enough that a little PGR is needed, which produces a stronger plant with more leaves and does not have a stretched appearance. The first Bonzi drench at 1/10 ppm controlled early growth. Then in the high temperatures of October we got a little more growth than expected. Since we had to apply the late drench earlier than desired we used the half-rate of Bonzi (0.5 ppm) on Oct. 23. This was followed by another half rate on Oct. 30. This split late drench is aimed at getting control over height with minimum effect on bract development. |
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