Derk VanKonynenburg, center, shares cooling details. Evaporative cooling can help improve fruit quality, reduce tree stress, and promote return bloom, a California orchardist reports. But the decision to use evaporative cooling should not be taken lightly. “The amount of time it takes to design and install, and properly manage a cooling system is enormous,” explains Derk VanKonynenburg of Britton VanKonynenburg Farms, in Modesto, California. It’s a big commitment, and once you start cooling, you cannot quit–not even for a day if the weather is hot–otherwise you risk having more sunburn than a grower who doesn’t cool at all, he told […]