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Pistachio Irrigation Training Module Pruning & Training Resources Pistachio Pruning Videos...

Welcome to the new Pistachio Irrigation Training Module with Monitoring of Demo Sites! Please click through the introductory powerpoint and listen to UCCE irrigation and agronomy advisor Blake Sanden explain this new and exciting project.

: | | Pruning & Training | | | | Robert H. Beede, UCCE Farm Advisor, Kings Co. Typical Types of Pruning Cuts Heading cuts shorten a limb by cutting back to a lateral branch. They are used to stiffen limbs push the canopy upward. Thinning cuts remove a branch at its point of origin.

A series of short videos featuring Robert Beede, Kings County Farm Advisor, and Chris Wiley, Ranch Manager Agri-World, in commercial pistachio orchards in Madera Co., California, demonstrating the pruning and training of pistachios from planting to maturity.

Pistachio Manual 2005 Climate & Cultivars Orchard Management Resources Nutrients & Fertilization Pest, Disease, and Weed Control Harvesting Pistachio Bloom Cast...

Pistachio Production Manual, Fourth Edition 2005 You have reached an archived page. The Pistachio Production Manual content is currently under revision, and the new edition will be available for purchase through ANR Publications.

Craig Kallsen, UCCE Farm Advisor, Kern Co. Pistachio Climate Requirements California Cultivars The pistachio tree, Pistacia vera L., a native to western Asia and Asia Minor, has a long juvenile periods, producing a small crop at 5 - 6 years, and achieveing full bearing at 10 - 12 years of age.

: | Orchard Management | | | | | Craig Kallsen, UCCE Farm Advisor, Kern Co. Pistachios, like other nut crops, are ideally grown on deep uniform loam soils, which provide an optimal combination of permeability, water retention and root zone aeration.

: | | | Nutrients & Fertilization | | | Robert H. Beede, UCCE Farm Advisor, Kings Co. A fertilization program is typically designed for a specific crop and orchard. At establishment, the soil is sampled for exisiting available nutrients.

: | | | | Pest, Disease and Weed Control | | 2012 PISTACHIO DAY PRESENTATIONS (PDFs of PowerPoints) Navel Orangeworm Management in 2011 vs 2010: Factors Affection Successful NOW Control Joel P.