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UK Gloucestershire

In the UK, we are experiencing high temperatures at the moment and the hot weather is due to continue for the next few weeks. Are there any good tips out there for protecting the skins of fruit from drying, ripening and cracking?

7/3/2018 7:14:11 AM

Germany

Depending on when you want to take the frut to the weigh-off, you better make a strategy of when to pollinate. With fruit growth of 30 - 50 days, assuming that the fruit will unlikely grow longer than 60 days and you don´t want to store the fruit and let it dry for a couple of weeks before weigh-off, it would perhaps be best to do the "important" pollinations around end of July. Currently you may shade the fruit, but that will only help to limited extent, because the fruit is still growing at high temperatures and the plant experiences these temperatures as well. Got a fruit growing already, then look for a nice strong secondary you will keep growing for another two months, and try to pollinate another female on this secondary in about a month.

7/3/2018 8:01:41 AM

UK Gloucestershire

Many thanks, appreciated.

7/10/2018 12:53:11 AM