Topics in Subtropics

April 16 (1 -3 PM)

Water Knowledge is
Power Knowledge

In-Person and Zoom

Topics and Speakers

Sources of ET information and their Reliability

By Ali Montazar - UCCE Irrigation Advisor, Imperial/San Diego/ Riverside counties

Selecting Irrigation Emitters-Drip vs Microsprinkler

Stu Styles - Cal Poly SLO Irrigation Training and Education Center

We would love to meet you in person at
The San Diego County Farm Bureau (420 S Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025)

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Avocado Meetings

December 4, 2013

By Ben A Faber

Growing Avocados on Different Spacing SLO 2/4/14 @ Extension Office 1-3 p.m. Ventura 2/5/14 @ Extension Office 9-11 a.m. Fallbrook 2/6/14 @ Fallbrook Public Utility District 9-11 a.m. High Density in the Field and Uniconazole SLO 4/1/14 T.B.A. 1-3 p.m. Ventura 4/2/14 T.B.A. 9-11 a.m.

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Native Pollinators of Avocado

December 2, 2013

By Ben A Faber

Dr. Gordon Frankie at UC Berkeley is teaming with me in Ventura County to jointly work on a pollination study for avocados. Dr. Frankie is studying how to increase native bee pollinators in avocado orchards.

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PGRs aand Olives

November 25, 2013

Advances in mitigation of alternate bearing of olive: vegetative growth response to plant growth regulators Elizabeth Fichtner, UCCE Farm Advisor, Tulare County, and Carol Lovatt, Professor of Plant Physiology, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC-Riverside.

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When to Fertilize Avocado and Citrus in California

November 25, 2013

By Ben A Faber

Citrus and avocado are of subtropical and tropical origin are cold-tender plants that have not developed the effective cold hardening process of deciduous trees that drop their leaves and go dormant. Even within deciduous, temperate tree species there are ranges of frost tolerance.

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