Please join the Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center for the Prune Short Course on October 29th and 30th, 2024! We’ll cover everything from how climate change affects prune trees to new varieties and their bearing differences.

This course is designed for Prune Growers and Processors, PCAs, and CCAs. Make sure to register before October 25h, 2024!

Topics include:

• Water Relations
• Dormancy and Chilling
• Fruit Growth, Sunburn, and Thinning
• New Varieties and Bearing Differences
• Climate Change

Please contact fruitsandnuts@ucdavis.edu with any questions about course content.

CEUs applied for

• 3.5 Other – DPR
• 3.5 IPM
• 1 Nutrient Management – CCA

Agenda

Day 1 – 10/29/2024

8:00 – 8:30 Coffee and Introductions

8:30 – 9:30 Physiology – Ted DeJong

9:30-10:30 Water Relations – Ken Shackel

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Nutrition – Ted DeJong

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:30 Dormancy and Chilling – Katherine Jarvis-Shean

1:30-3:00 Fruit Growth, Sunburn, Thinning – Franz Niederholzer

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-3:45 Climate Change – Ted DeJong

3:45-5:00 Diseases – Jim Adaskaveg and Jamie Ott

Day 2 – 10/30/2024

7:45-8:00 Coffee

8:00-8:45 Topsin – Themis Michailides

8:45-9:30 Rootstocks and Nematodes – Andreas Westphal and Luke Milliron

9:30-10:30 Entomology – Jhalendra Rijal

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:45 Pruning/Hedging – Becky Wheeler-Dykes

11:45-12:15 New varieties – Bearing differences – Ted DeJong and Sarah Castro

12:15-1:15 Lunch

Afternoon In the field