September 2018

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New Varieties

Featured stories covering new varieties in this issue.

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Hunting down a mysterious rot

New regulations over wine wastewater

Good vineyard sites in Virginia need good relative elevation and well drained soils, such as Brown Bear Vineyards in Woodstock, VA in the foothills of the Blue Mountains. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower)

Virginia is for wine lovers

Moments from the first day of Interpera 10th World Pear Conference held in Wenatchee, Washington on June 16, 2017. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

A fruiting wall future

These “external” (top tray) and “internal” (bottom tray) d’Anjou pears were kept at room temperature for three weeks following harvest in September 2014. The “external” pears were blushed with more yellowing and were more ripe compared to the “internal” pears, which were greener and slower to ripe. (Courtesy Sara Serra)

Position matters when picking pears

Gem pears

Good to Know: Funding pear projects

Courtesy Dahle OrchardsGrower Tim Dahle of The Dalles, Oregon, says there are advantages that come from having test plots in his orchards. “We do it to learn and develop best practices — that’s the No. 1 thing. And there is some value in being the first to learn some of these practices.”

A tale of two test plotters

Harwinder Singh, right, tosses a Bushpro mylar cover over Skeena cherries from Sukhpaul Bal's Hillcrest Farms in Kelowna, British Columbia, on July 21, 2018. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Cool cherry covers

IFTA B.C. tour: Some promising previews

Good Point: The time is ripe for pears

A cherry rests atop a spectrometer, which measures light absorption as a way to indicate the level of soluble solids and other factors in determining fruit maturity. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

IFTA B.C. tour: Light vision

Orchard managers at Coral Beach Farms in British Columbia, Canada, train first-year cherry trees by wedging a toothpick between the leader and young shoots to widen the crotch angle and make more lateral branches, like on this tree in Winfield. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

IFTA B.C. tour: Lessons from Lake Country

Hank Markgraf pulls one of the many BC Tree Fruits’ cherry boxes down from stacks prepared for packing in the Kelowna, British Columbia, packing facility on July 20, 2018. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

IFTA B.C. tour: Land of late and lucrative cherries – Video

Madeleine van Roechoudt, a young grower from Lake Country, British Columbia