The University of Vermont Apple Team within the Plant And Soil Science Department welcomes you to the

UVM Apple Orchard

The UVM Apple Program:

Extension and Research for the commercial tree fruit grower in Vermont and beyond...

Our commitment is to provide relevant and timely horticultural, integrated pest management, marketing and economics information to commercial tree fruit growers in Vermont and beyond. Please be sure to visit AIM (the Apple Information Manager) for more regional apple production information. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

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VT Apple Newsletter, October 27, 1999

VT Apple Newsletter, Sept. 28, 1999

VT Apple Newsletter, August 20, 1999

VT Apple Newsletter, July 25, 1999

VT Apple Newsletter, June 21, 1999

IPM Alert, June 2 1999

IPM Alert, May 25, 1999

VT Apple Newsletter, May 19, 1999

"Orchard Radar" running for Vermont sites: Introduction, Directory of Sites

Weekly DD Accumulation Posting for Apple Scab Ascospore Maturity

Critical Temperatures for Tree Fruit Bud Stages

Potential Rootstocks for Vermont, April 19, 1999

Weekly Update of DD Accumulation and Associated Pest Events

Reported Apple Bud Stage Development:

1999 Reports of Apple Bud Stage (McIntosh) for Selected Sites
^Date	UVM Hort.Res.Center	Shoreham	New Haven	Bennington	Walpole, NH
4/07	Dormant	Dormant	Dormant	Dormant	Dormant
4/14	Dormant	Dormant	Dormant	Green Tip(4/11)	Dormant
4/19	Green Tip (4/18)	Green Tip (4/16)	Green Tip(4/18)	-	Green Tip (4/15)
4/26	HIG (4/26)	HIG (4/24)	HIG (4/26)	HIG (4/22)	HIG (4/26)
5/03	Tight Cluster (5/3)	Tight Cluster (5/2)	-	-	Loose Cluster/Early Pink (5/3)
5/06	Early Pink (5/06)	Early Pink (5/5) Full Pink (5/6)	Early Pink(5/5)	-	-
5/08	First Bloom (5/7)	First Bloom (5/8)	First Bloom (5/7)	First Bloom (5/8)	Pink
5/13	Full Bloom (5/11)	Full Bloom (5/10)	Full Bloom (5/10)	-	First Bloom (5/8) Bloom (5/10)
5/18	Petal Fall (5/18)	Petal Fall (5/16)	Petal Fall (5/16)	Full Bloom (5/16)	95% Petal Fall (5/18)

Click here to read criteria for determining bud stages

Check out AIM (Apple Information Manager): a collaborative Extension and research effort of the Universities of Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island to bring timely, relevant, and useful apple production information to New England apple growers via the World Wide Web. AIM has excellent weather resources and helpful IPM decision making tools that should be of interest to all New England orchardists.

Subscribe to Grower E-mail Lists:

VT-APPLE-IPM, is a seasonal e-mail newsletter detailing current orchard horticultural and pest management events in Vermont. To subscribe, send an e-mail to listserve@list.uvm.edu with the subscribe command as the first line of your message along with the list name and your first and last name. For example: sub vt-apple-ipm Henry Somebody Once you are on, you may send a message to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: vt-apple-ipm@list.uvm.edu

Also, GROWER-AIM is an e-mail discussion group for New England apple growers. To subscribe, send an e-mail to listserve@list.uvm.edu with the subscribe command as the first line of your message along with the list name and your first and last name. For example: sub grower-aim Henry Somebody Once you are on, you may send a message to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: grower-aim@list.uvm.edu

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