Cherries come in two main botanical types: the sweet cherry and the sour cherry. Sweet varieties are grown where possible for fresh consumption. As a grower, you know better than anyone that achieving the highest yield and best quality is no mean feat and places high demands on you as a grower.
A lot can be gained if you are able to actively control stress conditions. Therefore start by improving the natural resilience of your cherry trees. We offer solutions for this in the form of numerous biostimulants and foliar fertilisers. Convince yourself that if you invest in resilience, you are investing in stress-free cherry cultivation: quantity with quality.
The basis for a tree full of cherries is sufficient water, nutrition and temperature. Also prune trees thoroughly every year to ensure that the fruit-bearing branches or cherry short shoots get enough light for a good, high-quality yield. Abiotic stress factors, such as heat, hail, a lack of moisture or mineral deficiency, can significantly disrupt growth and production. Other stress factors, such as June fruit drop, fruit rot and bacterial canker can also strike quite hard. Improving the resilience has a positive effect on limiting stress.
To achieve a better leaf condition at the start of the growing season, with higher chlorophyl density, use SilicaPower. This biostimulant contains a high percentage of easily absorbable silicon and therefore improves the distribution of calcium and magnesium in the cherry tree. In turn, this improves moisture management and your tree has fewer problems with drought stress. There is also better and more balanced absorption of various nutrients, which boosts growth.
Administering SilicaPower also literally strengthens cell walls. Early in the season, this has added value for the leaves, later in the season, for the actual cherries. Cherries with a firm skin are less susceptible to splitting when it rains just before harvesting and to bruising during harvesting, plus they store better.
Recommended dosage/advice for use - SilicaPower in cherry cultivation
The application times are:
Frost can ruin your entire growing season. Spraying SalicylPure (willow bark extract) increases the sugar levels in the blossom cells. Research and practical evidence show that blossom with higher sugar levels is less susceptible to frosts at temperatures down to -5oC.
Recommended dosage/advice for use – SalicylPure for frost protection
June fruit drop is the natural process that takes place after flowering, where fruit that have not set properly are shed. As a grower you obviously want to take steps to prevent this where possible. Nutricin can be used to help fruit that has not yet set very well. This biostimulant combines our products SalicylPure and SilicaPower, supplemented with seaweed extract and various amino acids. The combination boosts the tree’s self-healing capacity and stimulates plant physiological functions, such as fruit setting and fruit development.
Recommended dosage/advice for use - Nutricin to reduce June fruit drop
Frost, hard winds or a hefty hailstorm can cause wounds through broken twigs on both short and long shoots. Spraying ArgicinPlus prevents the natural defence response of wound-induced ethylene formation, the wound will grow over and the cherry tree will continue to actively grow.
Recommended dosage/advice for use - ArgicinPlus for wounds from broken branches
Sweet cherries for fresh consumption are a seasonable product. Harvesting often takes place under warm conditions. To preserve harvested cherries for longer still, all of the basic requirements for good storage must have been met. Make sure that the crates and the cold store are clean, so that storage diseases are not given a chance to develop. To ensure that clean really does mean clean, use ArgiPura. This is a ready-to-use cleaning product, developed specifically for this purpose. It contains a mixture of soap and traces of colloidal silver and micro-copper complex. You can add ArgiPura undiluted to the detergent tank of the high-pressure cleaning machine, then allowing it to mix with the water at a ratio of 1:100.
Any more questions concerning your cherry cultivation?
Do you have any additional questions or would you like tailor-made advice concerning your own cultivation situation? Contact your dealer or our advisor Alwin Scholten. Alwin can be contacted on telephone number +31 (0)6 49 33 49 30, or by email on alwin.scholten@plantosys.nl.
The application of our product SilicaPower, with 3% absorbable orthosilcic acid, has many benefits for your cherry cultivation. For example, better leaf condition with higher chlorophyll production. Discuss the options for your farm’s situation with our advisor Alwin Scholten.
