Eric Robinson (right) explains to Carlos Chavez (left) and Pepe Armendariz how he’s training his cherry trees to the Spanish Bush system. The Robinson family is experimenting with cherries, a crop not commonly grown in Mexico so far. “Cherries are a crop we’re not very acquainted with,” said John Robinson, who has about 250 acres of orchard in the Casas Grandes area of Chihuahua. He has a test plot of 20 varieties on a number of rootstocks, including Mahaleb, Mazzard, G.5 and G.6. The trees, now in their third leaf, were planted as whips and are being trained to the […]