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<\/a><\/p>\nWhen choosing to apply plant growth regulators, be sure to check the field for total nodes and nodes above white flower. Avoid using PGRs after the first or second\u00a0week\u00a0of bloom.\u00a0This is generally too late to have a beneficial effect on plant height and could have a negative impact on yield, especially to stressed cotton.<\/p>\n
Crop tour dates are as follows:
\nVictoria County Crops Tour –\u00a0 June 13<\/strong><\/p>\nRefugio County Crops Tours\u00a0– June 14<\/strong><\/p>\nCalhoun County Crops Tour –\u00a0June 15<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cotton maturity\u00a0across\u00a0the Mid-Coast\u00a0ranges from half-grown square to near cutout. Pest insects to be aware of include cotton fleahopper, bollworms, stink bugs and verde plant bugs. Continue to monitor young cotton for cotton fleahoppers until the first week of bloom.\u00a0 If you have a decent fruit set at bloom of at least 70% retention, the cotton fleahopper should not be a pest after first bloom. By bloom, the cotton plant should have 80% or more of the harvestable fruit.\u00a0 Since the\u00a0fleahopper is\u00a0not able\u00a0to cause square loss\u00a0to squares larger than… Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1158,"featured_media":842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15,66,20,25,19,36,42,32,26],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pest-management-news","tag-cotton","tag-cotton-bollworm","tag-cotton-fleahopper","tag-economic-threshold","tag-field-scouting","tag-insecticides","tag-plant-growth-regulator","tag-stink-bugs","tag-verde-plant-bug"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCotton IPM Update - 5\/26\/2017 - Mid-Coast IPM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/mid-coast-ipm\/cotton-ipm-update-5262017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cotton IPM Update - 5\/26\/2017 - Mid-Coast IPM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cotton maturity\u00a0across\u00a0the Mid-Coast\u00a0ranges from half-grown square to near cutout. 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<\/a>Once the crop is blooming, inspect plants for cotton bollworms, verde plant bugs and stink bugs. The method of checking plants I use to inspect the squares and bolls beginning\u00a0at the top of the plant.\u00a0I am primarily\u00a0looking for worms and plant bugs and fruit damage.\u00a0When damaged squares are found, try to track the damage to the worm. While most worms will be controlled by\u00a0Bt cotton varieties\u00a0do not assume the Bt cotton will prevent economic losses from occurring.\u00a0Use an economic threshold of 5-10,000 worms per acre.\u00a0 More information on Bt Cotton HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/agrilife.org\/mid-coast-ipm\/files\/2016\/05\/Stink-bug-ET-Aid-2-300x148.jpg\")
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