Topics in Subtropics

Topics in Subtropics Blog

You can subscribe to this blog with multiple entries per week reflecting what's happening with subtropical crops and upcoming educational events. Just click on the "Subscribe" button just to the right of this paragraph. There's also our seasonal quarterly Topics in Subtropics newsletter found at our Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Riverside, San Diego, Tulare and Kern Counties Cooperative Extension websites.

CCA Nitrogen Training

November 4, 2020

By Ben A Faber

Are you interested in learning more about Nitrogen Management? Are you a Certified Crop Adviser seeking Continuing Education Units and/or preparing for the new California Nitrogen Specialty Exam? Has your grower clientele asked you if you are eligible to sign off on a Nitrogen Management Plan?

View Article

Give a Fig. Pests Might Not Like It.

November 2, 2020

Sometimes distant relationships are better than close relationships. https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.

View Article

Coffee Rust in Hawaii!!!!

October 30, 2020

By Ben A Faber

Coffee Leaf Rust (Hemileia vastatrix) has recently been found in Hawaii. This is a devastating fungal disease that has been found in most coffee growing areas of the world. It arose in Africa and moved to the Americas, now it is completing the circle, showing up in Hawaii.

View Article

HLB Resistant Citrus?

October 28, 2020

By Ben A Faber

by Brad Buck http://blogs.ifas.ufl.

View Article

Removing Avocado Suckers with Glyphosate?

October 26, 2020

By Ben A Faber

Ben Faber and Brad Hanson This is not good. You find an avocado tree with sun blotch or it is time to thin the orchard and you remove the offending tree. You know that if you don't remove the sucker, you'll end up with some rootstock growth that just gets in the way of the other trees.

View Article