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Bromeliads
... even curved. Plants in this genus are very susceptible to injury from cold temperatures. GROWING BROMELIADS INDOORS Bromeliads are excellent indoor ... the plants, and the covers are unsightly. In addition, mechanical breakage of leaves often occurs. A more practical way ... crown of many bromeliads to rot. Also, plants subjected to mechanical injury, insects or sunburn may be invaded by one of many ...
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Handling, Cooling and Sanitation Techniques for Maintaining Postharvest Quality
... http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/CV/CV11500.pdf . Keywords: postharvest handling, mechanical injury, harvest, sanitation, shipping container, hydrocooling, chilling injury, commercial cooling Photo gallery: Fig. 1. Careless handling can hasten ripening, reducing ...
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Flowering Dogwood
... after planting. Root rots may occur on dogwoods, but they are generally caused by mechanical root injury or by cultural conditions such as overfertilization, overwatering or lack of soil water drainage. Wet ... can be caused by a lack of available soil moisture, transplanting shock, fertilizer or salt injury to roots or root rot diseases. CULTIVARS Few red and pink forms of dogwood are ...
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Backyard Sugarcane
... circumference. Although the stool typically gets bigger over time, the combined effects of winter and mechanical damage leads to declining basal bud viability. Eventually, stalk production declines, so expect to ... mind that harvesting too early reduces current yields and increases the potential for winter injury since young regrowth is vulnerable. Using a sharp knife or lopping shears, cut stalks ...
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Weed Management in Sugarcane - 2006
... plants have the initial competitive advantage against weeds. Preemergence herbicide applications, in conjunction with mechanical cultivation, help to ensure the early season advantage. Directed or semi-directed postemergence ... . Postemergence applications of K-4 to actively growing sugarcane may result in crop injury when daily temperatures exceed 80 F. When daily temperatures exceed 80 F, post- ...
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Tree Density, Hedging, and Topping
... prone areas, it is best not to top in the fall to avoid possible cold injury to new growth and exposed internal scaffold wood. Figure 2. Topping height, middle width, and ... reduce topping frequency (assuming labor is available to pick fruit at this height). For some mechanical harvesters, maximum recommended height for is 18 feet, tree width at the base is 13 ...
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Managing Bull Fertility in Beef Cattle Herds
... -extracted cottonseed meal should be limited to 5 percent or less of the diet, while mechanical extracted cottonseed meal can be fed at levels of up to 15 percent of the ... the internal and external genitalia are important in assessing a bull's reproductive ability as injury or infection can render a bull infertile. Yearling Scrotal Circumference Yearling scrotal circumference (YSC) provides ...
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