Horticulture: Personnel : Faculty

Gerard W. Krewer

Professor

Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station
Horticulture Building
Tifton, GA 31793

Campus:  Tifton
Phone:  229-386-3355
Fax:  229-386-7133
Email:  gkrewer@uga.edu

Production expertise:

• Southern highbush and rabbiteye blueberry production
  
• Muscadine grape production
  
• Plasticulture strawberry production
• Moderate chilling peach cultivars

Current research areas:

• Growth regulators in blueberry production: gibberellic acid for fruit set
  and freeze rescue, Dormex for enhanced leaf development and fruiting, ethephon
  for bloom delay.
  
• Use of pole and post peelings for southern highbush blueberry production
  in non-spodic soils.
  
• Development of moderate chilling, non-melting flesh, fresh market peaches
  (cooperative project at Attapulgus, GA with University of Florida and USDA).
• Control of Pierce's Disease in grapes with imidacloprid insecticide.

85% Extension; 15% Research

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