Journal of the APS Vol 72 Number 3 July 2018

171 B lueberry Table 4. Dry weight, length, and water content of the floral buds collected from ‘Emerald’ and 289 ‘Farthing’ southern highbush blueberry. The buds were sampled during the winter months of 290 2016-2017. 291 Table 4. Dry weight, length, and water content of the floral buds collected from ‘Emerald’ and ‘Farthing’ southern highbush blueberry. The buds were sampled during the winter months of 2016-2017.

Emerald

Farthing

Dry Bud Figure captions

295

Bud Water Bud Length

Dry Bud wt (mg)

Bud Water Bud Length

Chill Hours z wt (mg)

Date

content (%)

(mm)

content (%)

(mm)

296

56.1 c 57.5 c 57.8 c

5.4 d

59.0 bc

4.5 d

8.4 b y

29 Nov. 13 Dec.

118 170 235 287 287 333

4.2 b 4.5 b 4.4 b 4.8 b

12.3 b 11.5 b 13.4 b 18.0 ab Fig. . Daily minimum and maximum temperature measured over floral bud sampling period 297 2015-16 (16 Nov. to 15 Feb.) and 2016-17 (29 Nov. to 31. Jan.). Data gathered from Georgia 298 Automated Environmental Monitoring Network ( http://www.georgiaweather.net/) , Homervill 299 GA station. 300 8.6 cd 56.3 c 5.0 cd 5.5 cd 5.9 bc 6.9 ab 12.5 bc 12.6 bc 18.0 b 59.5 abc 61.4 abc 66.2 ab 61.0 bc 71.0 a 5.4 ab 27.5 a 68.6 ab 7.0 a 26.2 a 68.3 a 7.9 a

5 Jan.

17 Jan. 24 Jan. 31 Jan.

z Total hours at 0-7 °C. 292 y Means followed by the same letter within a column are not significantly different at P ≤ 0.05 according to Tukey HSD. y Total hours at 0-7 °C. x Means followed by the same letter within a column are not significantly different at P ≤ 0.05 according to Tukey HSD.

293 294

301

40

2015-16

Daily Max Temp. °C Daily Min Temp. °C

30

20

10

Temperature (deg. C)

0

-10

40

2016-17

30

20

10

Temperature (deg. C)

0

17

-10

11/16

11/30

12/14

12/28

1/11

1/25

2/8

Date

302 Figure 1. Daily minimum and maximum temperature measured over floral bud sampling period for 2015-16 (16 Nov. to 15 Feb.) and 2016-17 (29 Nov. to 31 Jan.). Data gathered from Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network (http://www.georgiaweather.net/), Homerville, GA station.

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