prepink
English
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- (horticulture) After the development of buds and leaves on an apple tree, but before the pink coloration appears.
- 1885, Pamphlets on Parasitology, volume 128, page 255:
- The apple trees were to receive no dormant lime sulphur, but an application of Scalecide 1 to 15 at the delayed dormant, followed by a prepink lime sulphur 1 to 30 and the pink lime sulphur 1 to 10.
- 1948, Donald Folsom, Comparative Effects of Certain Sulphur Fungicides on McIntosh Apple Trees, page 19:
- These all showed positive correlation (r = +.414 to +.507) with the length of the interval prepink to calyx. This is not surprising, since always most of this interval was in May and usually rainy days in May are cool days […]