Freezing temperatures on the finish of April brought about a variety of harm to Brandenburg fruit growers. The fruit rising experimental station in Müncheberg information failures of greater than 90 % for some varieties of fruit.
There is a giant lack of the fruit harvest in Brandenburg this 12 months. In some locations it has virtually fully disappeared: According to the fruit-growing analysis station in Müncheberg (Märkisch-Oderland), a stormy night time final month killed many flowers and small fruits on the station.
The head of the testing station, Andreas Winkler, informed rbb that the cherry failure price is 90 %. There was even a “full failure” of pears and apples, Winkler stated.
A nasty harvest of the fruit was feared after there have been many nights on the finish of April when the bottom temperature was generally under 4 levels. According to Andreas Winkler’s experiments, bushes with out fruit now will produce extra shoots. “The end result subsequent 12 months is that we are going to have extra flowers.” Fruit growers should take motion towards this and scale back the flowers. Supernumerary flowers and small fruits are sometimes eliminated to develop fewer however bigger fruits.
According to the Statistics Office of Berlin-Brandenburg, about 1,400 hectares are used for rising fruit in Brandenburg. About 60 % of that is taken up by planting apple bushes.
More than 1,000 types of fruit bushes develop on the fruit-growing experimental station in Müncheberg. Fruit species have been studied right here for nearly 100 years. This 12 months, in response to its supervisor, the fruit tree station has only a few take a look at fruits accessible as a result of heavy frost final month.
Broadcast: Antenne Brandenburg, May 16, 2024, 3:40 pm