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  Cherries

  MSU Extension promotes the growth of cherry production, and offers educational opportunities to explore and learn to improve production.

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• Grand Rapids area tree fruit update – May 5, 2020

  Published on May 5, 2020
  Tree growth is very slow and cold temperatures are on the horizon.

• Scout now for sporulating American brown rot fungus in sweet cherry orchards

  Published on June 21, 2013
  Look for sweet cherries showing sporulation due to American brown rot infection. These fruit will be sources of disease inoculum that can result in excessive infected fruit at harvest.

• Appearance of a virus disease of tart cherry in northwest Michigan

  Published on July 21, 2010
  

• Northwest Michigan fruit update – April 25, 2017

  Published on April 25, 2017
  Cooler temperatures are forecasted late this week and sweet cherry bloom is predicted for late next week.

• West Michigan tree fruit update – May 15, 2018

  Published on May 15, 2018
  Tree fruits are all abloom this week.

• West Michigan tree fruit regional report – May 31, 2016

  Published on May 31, 2016
  Above-normal temperatures have been good for tree fruit growth.

• Northwest Michigan fruit regional report – May 28, 2013

  Published on May 28, 2013
  The pleasant temperatures have brought cherries out of the shuck – looks like we have a good set so far.

• Using GA to adjust cropping in cherries

  Published on May 9, 2006
  

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  Northwest Michigan fruit report – June 18, 2019

  Published on June 18, 2019
  Cool and wet conditions continue in northwest Michigan. We are assessing crop size in cherries, and growers are thinning apples.

• How to assess flower bud damage in tart cherries

  Published on April 10, 2012
  With the potentially damaging cold temperatures this season, growers should be assessing crop damage on the farm to help determine management strategies and crop potential moving forward.

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  Bridge grafting girdled fruit tree trunks

  Published on March 26, 2014
  Bridge grafting is an option to help save trees with extensive bark damage inflicted by rabbits during the winter.

• Northwest Michigan fruit update – June 23, 2020

  Published on June 23, 2020
  Apples grew almost 10 millimeters this week, and most fruitlets are at or approaching 20 millimeters; cherry crop is variable.

• West Michigan tree fruit regional report – June 17, 2014

  Published on June 17, 2014
  Primary apple scab is over in West Michigan.

• Fungicide considerations for cherry leaf spot control at first cover

  Published on June 7, 2013
  The first cover spray timing after shuck split is a critical disease timing in tart cherry orchards, and fungicide sprays must target both cherry leaf spot and powdery mildew diseases.

• Grand Rapids area tree fruit update

  Published on March 30, 2011
  We’re off to a slow start with the cooler temperatures this spring.

• Cherry leaf spot and tart cherries prior to harvest

  Published on July 12, 2011
  Early cherry leaf spot infections increase the risk of epidemic infection levels in the north.

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  West central Michigan tree fruit update – May 23, 2017

  Published on May 23, 2017
  Fluctuating temperatures, high winds and sporadic rains have made spray coverage a challenge and led to disease concerns, particularly fire blight.

• West Michigan tree fruit regional report – April 21, 2015

  Published on April 21, 2015
  We are off to the races for the 2015 season.

• Presentations from 2010 Northwest Michigan Orchard and Vineyard show now available

  Published on February 15, 2010
  

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  How to join and participate in the spring tree fruit Zoom webinars

  Published on April 3, 2020
  Growers that registered for the Spring 2020 MSU Tree Fruit Webinars will need to register in Zoom on the day of the webinar. This is Part 3 of a three-part series on the spring tree fruit webinar series.