[nafex] sour-cherry varieties

Scott Weber and Muffy Barrett bluestem_farm at juno.com
Sun Feb 26 19:26:30 EST 2012


Dan,Thanks for that thought.  We are deficient in zinc (as well as just about everything else except Mg, Mn and Fe), so it may be a nutritional problem.   I hadn't thought of that; I guess I'll have to leave it in for two more years, to see if giving it micronutrients this year makes a difference in 2013....  Muffy Barrett

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I remembered reading that a zinc application just before leaf drop made flower buds more hardy, at 
least for apricots.  Perhaps that goes as well for cherries.  I don't know if this was a spray or not.

<http://www.oakcreekorchard.com/id82.html>
"Dr. Craig Ledbetter, the USDA-ARS apricot breeder in Fresno, CA, believes that apricots have fairly 
high zinc requirements and that a fall zinc application shortly before leaf drop apparently makes 
the flower buds more hardy and better developed come spring."

Dan



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