Preventing Damages Caused by Late Spring Frosts in the Cherry by Chemical Treatment
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Damages caused by late-spring frosts in cherry growing are frequently, in Transylvania, Romania. The results referring to lower damages in cherry growing caused by late spring frost, in 2011, at SC Agroindustiala SA Cluj-Napoca are presented. The biological material was represented by 2000 trees of each cherry cultivars: ‘Stella’, ‘Van’, ‘Germersdorf’, ‘Boambe de Cotnari’. In order to reduce damage caused by late spring frost, there were applied the following treatments: I. Damisol BB 5Kg/ha; II. a mixture consisting of boric acid 70 g/l + glutamic acid 130 g/l, 6 l/ha; III. a mixture consisting of boric acid 60g/l and aspartic acid 120 g/l, and Campfo Ca, in the amount of 6 l/ha. The application of all chemical treatments substantially reduced the level of damage due to late-spring frosts. Compared to untreated control where average production obtained was 0.4 t/ha, in the variant treated with Damisol BB the yield was 3.5 t/ha, in case of Mixture II 1.6 t/ha and 8 t/ha using Mixture III, the differences being statistically assured. Among cultivars there were no differences statistically assured. Tab. 1 Effect of chemical treatments and cultivars upon average cherries yield (t/ha), following the late spring frosts, in 2011, at Cluj-Napoca Cultivar/treatment
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2197957368