Abstract
ABSTRACT BUD development was delayed on Redhaven peach trees in 1975 by using evaporative cooling from sprinkler irrigation when bud temperatures exceeded 4.4 C. 104 cm of water were applied. Analysis was made of the potential reduction in water use and cooling that would have been obtained if sprinkling had been initiated at bud temperatures ranging from 4.4 to 9C whenever cooling potential existed. Cooling potential was measured by the difference between dry bud tem-perature and wet bulb temperature. The optimum set points for initiating sprinkling were found to be a dry bud temperature of 6.7 C and a cooling potential of 2.0 C.
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