Next Year's Cherries Start Now
It was a fast-paced and challenging cherry season, leaving growers now shifting attention towards post-harvest orchard recovery and prepping trees for continued environmental stress…
“Directly after harvest, and cherries are not unique in this, growers really should be focused on the following season as well as the health of any of their perennial crops. For cherries specifically what we see is that harvest is an initiator for bud differentiation. Tree stress at this time can be detrimental to making sure that we can move through that physiological process to initiate buds, store nutrients, and produce the energy that we need to support flowering and early-season fruit set next year.”
Spoken like someone who knows the business. That’s Ryan McCoon of Cultiva. He and I chatted recently about heat stress hindering overall plant performance and the plethora of problems that can pop up from cherry doubling and hindered flower differentiation to excess spur formation…
“We’ve seen Parka reduce doubling by up to 64%. It also helps trees maintain some of the physiological support that they need to complete that differentiation process. All of this alludes directly to marketable yields the year after.”
To learn more about Parka, head to Cultiva.com.
