THE CURRICULUM

(12-MONTH SEASONAL PROGRAM)

Blossom Basics gives you the foundations. Blossom Pro gives you the systems, the diagnostics, and the decision frameworks you need to run a high-performance orchard through every month of the season. Some sessions go deeper on Basics content. Others cover territory Basics doesn't touch at all. Every session is built around what is actually happening in your orchard that month.

JULY — Dormancy, Chilling & Pre-Blossom Tree Physiology
What your tree is doing right now, and why it determines everything about blossom quality in August. Chilling hour accumulation, dormancy depth, carbohydrate reserves, varietal differences, and how to read a tree going into winter.

AUGUST — Pollination Systems & Blossom Management
The month where yield is won or lost. Bee logistics, hive placement strategy, variety overlap timing, weather risk windows during bloom, frost thresholds, and boron application timing. Build a repeatable pollination management system.

SEPTEMBER — Fruit Set, Early Irrigation & Nutrition Programming
Petal fall to jacket stage is the most critical window of the season. Nut set targets, what drives variation, initiating your irrigation program from evidence not habit, and early season nutrition decisions that protect set.

OCTOBER — Canopy Architecture & Light Performance
How pruning and canopy decisions made this month compound into yield gains or losses over the next five years. Percent light interception targets, architecture assessment, and a block-level canopy audit framework.

NOVEMBER — Fertigation Strategy & Mid-Season Water Budgeting
Peak demand period management. ET-based water budgeting in practice, mid-season leaf test interpretation, fertigation formulation decisions, compatibility, and concentration targets at scale.

DECEMBER — Pest Pressure, Disease Risk & Hull Split Scouting Systems
The highest-risk pest window of the year. Navel orangeworm biology, mites, scale, and webspinners. Build a structured scouting protocol with real decision thresholds. Know when to spray and when you are wasting money.

JANUARY — Hull Split Management & Harvest Timing Decisions
The decisions that protect your price. Hull split progression across varieties, timing decision frameworks, floor preparation, moisture monitoring, and contractor coordination.

FEBRUARY — Harvest Operations, Yield Capture & Real-Time NDVI
Most operations capture harvest data poorly. Fix that now. Using in-season NDVI to explain block variability, setting up your yield capture system, and what the data is actually telling you.

MARCH — Post-Harvest Tree Recovery & Nutrition Response
The most underestimated month in the almond calendar. Post-harvest water and nutritional demands, foliar program timing, potassium and zinc response, and how what you do now directly determines next year's blossom potential.

APRIL — Soil Health, Root Zone Diagnostics & Orchard Variability
Go beyond the soil test numbers. Root zone health indicators, variability mapping, and integrating soil, NDVI, yield and nutrition data into a coherent picture of what is actually driving block-to-block differences.

MAY — Season Data Analysis, Benchmarking & Financial Performance
Full season post-mortem. Yield versus forecast reconciliation, cost per kilogram analysis, identifying where money was left on the table, and building the data habit that changes decisions next season.

JUNE — Strategic Agronomy Planning & Annual Systems Review
Design next season's agronomy program as a documented system before the season starts. Block targets, irrigation and nutrition frameworks, pest management plans, and resource budgeting. This is where professional growers separate themselves.