News about Nutrients

Cherry nutrition: how to improve size, quality and resistance to cracking

Tech management

04 Dec 2025

Discover the best nutritional practices to improve cherry size, firmness, and post-harvest life. A complete guide to calcium, potassium, boron, and nitrogen applications, plus leaf and soil analysis to ensure top-quality fruit throughout the entire growing season.

Recent updates on cherry tree management and nutrition

Tech management

29 Aug 2024

When developing a fertilisation programme, it is necessary to determine what nutrients the crop needs and when it needs them. A simple approach is to define the needs of the trees and the crop based on the estimated yield.

Carrying out foliar nutrient analysis to improve quality and yield of the cherry orchard

Tech management

24 Jun 2024

Nutrient analysis in leaves is fundamental to modern agriculture, allowing growers to assess the nutritional status of orchards and plan targeted fertilisation interventions. This tool is crucial for ensuring high quality fruit.

Improving quality and yield through nutrient and rootstock management

Tech management

05 Jun 2024

Researchers from Prosser (Washington) are inserting electrical sensors into the soil, burying a root camera and uprooting entire cherry trees to study how and when nutrients move through them in order to apply fertilisers at the right time.

Towards a more sustainable sweet cherry production: the use of mycorrhizae to increase drought resistance

Tech management

12 Dec 2023

Field, laboratory, biochemical, physiological and statistical methods were used for this research. Root inoculation with MycoApply Micronised Endo/Ecto resulted in a 1.3-11.8% increase in the water-holding capacity of the leaves compared to the control group.