Year-Round IPM Program Pages
This year-round IPM program covers the major pests of nectarine in California.
About Dormancy/Delayed-dormancy (leaf fall to bud swell)
- Why is this season important in an IPM program?
- Mitigate pesticide effects to minimize air and water contamination.
What should you be doing at this time?
Apply fungicide treatments as needed according to Nectarine Pest Management Guidelines:
Manage orchard floor vegetation:
- Survey weeds and keep records (example weed survey form .
- Manage weeds in rows with pre- or postemergence herbicides or nonchemically in organic orchards.
- Mow any resident vegetation very close to ground.
Make an oil treatment for scales and European red and brown mite eggs.
- If you saw increasing damage from scales last year, take a dormant shoot sample to see if an insect growth regulator should be added to the oil treatment.
Treat peach twig borer and obliquebanded leafroller with environmentally sound material or delay treatment until bloom.
- Armillaria root rot
- Fruittree leafroller egg masses
- Pocket gophers
- Stink bugs
- Tree borers
- Voles