How UFOs can improve sweet cherry production

(American Society for Horticultural Science) Researchers investigated first-year establishment of future fruiting structure for a new sweet cherry canopy architecture, Upright Fruiting Offshoots. At planting, trunk angles of 45° or 60° from horizontal resulted in increased shoot growth compared with 30°, and also increased shoot distribution when bud selection was not imposed. Establishing cordon height at 45 cm increased total shoot length by 20 percent compared with 60 cm cordon height. Bud...