Grower Degree Days Calculator
Grower Degree Days is a heat index calculation that helps growers determine all sorts of useful information: Bud swell, leaf emergence, flowers, and pest emergence to name a few.
In the nursery industry this gives us an opportunity to better plan and be successful with our pest management plans. Insects and mites are cold blooded, so they rely on certain thresholds of temperature for them to become active.
