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Spring frost effects on 30 sweet cherries varieties grown in North Italy

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2010-08-16
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Roversi, A., Pattori, E., Malvicini, G. L., & Sbaruffati, S. (2010). Spring frost effects on 30 sweet cherries varieties grown in North Italy. International Journal of Horticultural Science, 16(4), 33-37. https://doi.org/10.31421/IJHS/16/4/913
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After a spring frost occurred in second half of March 2008, with temperatures below 0°C for 8 days consecutively and an absolute minimum of -5.5°C, a lot of observations have been made on the sweet cherry flowers damages. In three different orchards “Italian palmetta” trained on grassing ground soil, the percentage of the flowers killed by frost, was detected and recorded considering the different genotypes and flowers height from the ground. Furthermore, in one orchard only it was possible to find relationship between flowering stage and frost damage. The results clearly confirm our previous works about the highest mortality of the flower in the upper part ( > 1.50 m) of the canopy and in the full bloom open flowers. So, in this area, the easiness of agronomic operations, like pruning and, especially, fruit harvest, due to the crown proximity to the ground, is cancelled by the frequency of spring frost.