February 15th 2013 Issue

A replacement for Tiberon

MaxCel will cause branching on nursery trees, but it takes more spray applications.

Nurseries working to provide apple growers with the well-branched, “feathered” trees they want to plant can use the chemical MaxCel and will find it as effective and safer than Tiberon in inducing branching. That’s the good news coming from Cornell University researchers and nurseries that have worked with them. They were all surprised last year by news that Tiberon, first used in 2009 to increase branching on nursery stock, would no longer be available after 2012. New research shows that MaxCel works effectively, and does it without having the stunting effect on trees that Tiberon sometimes showed, especially on some […]

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February 15, 2013

Apples, New Developments, Research, Richard Lehnert

Richard Lehnert

After growing up on a Michigan dairy farm, Richard Lehnert began writing about farming in 1962, while still a junior studying journalism at Michigan State University. He worked at newspapers for a year before joining the staff of Michigan Farmer, where he spent 26 years, the last 15 as chief editor. He was a member of the staff of Good Fruit Grower from 2010 until 2015. Read his stories: Story Index

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