In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are prohibited from hosting our large in-person educational events this season. In lieu of this, we've been producing a series of educational events via Zoom webinars, that are then edited and posted on our YouTube channel.

Registration link: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uHKcqmyNRPO6IL-KKll2GA

Organized by Lake Ontario Fruit Program.

Agenda:

5 min: Intro, sponsorship, fruit size update for important apple cultivars - Mario Miranda Sazo

35 min: Managing irrigation in 2020 by using the updated Cornell irrigation model - Dr. Terence Robinson

15 min: Questions and answers

This event is free, but pre-registration is required. Once you register, if you are calling in with your phone, you will receive an email with a password, which will be required to login. Any questions or concerns with registration please direct to Craig Kahlke at cjk37@cornell.edu.

For more information on irrigation in 2020 take a look at the most recent Fruit Notes Volume 20 Issue 11.  If you don't receive Fruit Notes but would like to please enroll at https://lof.cce.cornell.edu/enrollment.php  and consider including subscriptions for Fruit Facts & Harvest Maturity Report for timely horticulture and pest or apple harvest information and reccommendations.

For previous CCE- LOF virtual meetings, including PDF slide sets:

Spring Orchard Series:  https://lof.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=707&crumb=crops|crops|apples|crop*38

Summer Fruit Series:  https://lof.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=723&crumb=crops|crops|cherries|crop*41

Or check out the videos on our YouTube channel here:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6PXjEkx7nLDY1A81Ek5brQ/

*Thumbnail photo of irrigation being added to in newly planted orchard.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are prohibited from hosting our large in-person educational events this season. In lieu of this, we've been producing a series of educational events via Zoom webinars, that are then edited and posted on our YouTube channel.

At the 2020 CCE LOF Winter Fruit Schools, we spoke about new advances in Honeycrisp tree fruit nutrition and introduced peel SAP analysis to better predict bitter pit early in the growing season. We would like to encourage all Honeycrisp growers to start thinking about which Honeycrisp block (or ideally all blocks at your farm!) you would like to collect fruit for peel SAP analysis this July 2020. We are specially inviting all WNY packinghouses and their Honeycrisp fruit growers to submit peel samples to CCE LOF this season. A zoom webinar with Drs. Cheng and Robinson is currently being organized by CCE LOF to launch this new and exciting extension effort with Honeycrisp on Tuesday July 14 at noon. Here is the link to register for the webinar: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jmcWYoA6RHyLlix_DD-a3w

Agenda:

• 5 min: Intro, sponsorship announcements - Craig Kahlke
• 10 min: The Cornell multi-pronged strategy to managing Honeycrisp in the summer and fall of 2020 - Terence Robinson
• 10 min: YouTube video, sampling, and submission protocol for taking 'Honeycrisp' peel tissue for sap analysis in WNY in July - Mario Miranda Sazo
• 10 min: Peel sap analysis and bitter bit incidence in Honeycrisp - Lailiang Cheng
• 10 min: Closing remarks, peel sap reports, plans for the fall - Terence Robinson and Lailiang Cheng
• 15 min: Questions and Answers 

This event is free, but pre-registration is required. Once you register, if you are calling in with your phone, you will receive an email with a password, which will be required to login. Any questions or concerns with registration please direct to Craig Kahlke at cjk37@cornell.edu.

Thanks to our Sponsors thus far! Niagara Fresh, Inc. (Chris Bucolo), Sun Orchard Fruit Co. (Steve Riessen), Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. (John Russell & Scott Henning), LynOaken Farms (Chris Oakes), Wayne County Fruit Sales (Scott VanDeWalle), and Pomona Packing, Inc. (Phil Smith).

For more information on Peel SAP Analysis take a look at the most recent Fruit Notes Volume 20 Issue 11.  If you don't receive Fruit Notes but would like to please enroll at https://lof.cce.cornell.edu/enrollment.php  and consider including subscriptions for Fruit Facts & Harvest Maturity Report for timely horticulture and pest or apple harvest information and reccommendations.

For previous CCE- LOF virtual meetings, including PDF slide sets:

Spring Orchard Series:  https://lof.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=707&crumb=crops|crops|apples|crop*38

Summer Fruit Series:  https://lof.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=723&crumb=crops|crops|cherries|crop*41

Or check out the videos on our YouTube channel here:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6PXjEkx7nLDY1A81Ek5brQ/

*Thumbnail photo of Freshly squeezed peel sap from Honeycrisp fruit samples collected from several research plots in July 2019. Peel sap is ready to be analyzed in Cornell Nutrient Analysis Lab with an ICP (Induc􀆟vely Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry).

In this webinar, Dr. Terence Robinson, Dr. Lailiang Cheng, CCE-LOF's Mario Miranda Sazo, and Lake Ontario Fruit Inc.'s Scott Henning will present a summary of the peel sap analysis for bitter pit prediction. Dr. Chris Watkins will follow with instructions on how to use the passive prediction model. CCE-LOF's Craig Kahlke will talk about arrangements for fruit storage for the passive model in commercial storages, along with help in evaluating the fruit. The panel will discuss recommendations/comparison between the 2 models to help guide storage regime and marketing plans.

Here is the link to register for the webinar: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HDoRGEYiSy2qdoktY5UGAQ

This event is free, but pre-registration is required. Once you register, if you are calling in with your phone, you will receive an email with a password, which will be required to login. Any questions or concerns with registration please direct to Craig Kahlke at cjk37@cornell.edu