Published April 1969. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published May 1970. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Success in mechanical harvesting of sweet cherries often depends as much on the way trees have been trained and pruned as on the harvest machinery used, crop load, or degree of fruit maturity.
Published May 1944. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published May 1925. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Revised July 1983. Reprinted January 2000. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Oregon's Willamette Valley sweet cherry growers have
developed a market for large, high quality, stem-on brining cherries.
The maturity indices pull force (PF), percent soluble solids (SS),
and weight (Wt) were chosen as being the most probable indicators of
maturity.
The rate of change of PF during the harvest period...
The location of prune dwarf virus (PDV) and Prunus
necrotic ringspot virus (PNRSV) in pollen and seed
from infected and healthy sweet cherry trees pollinated
with infected pollen was investigated. Virus-like
particles were observed in the cytoplasm of pollen
grains from PDV-infected cherry trees using transmission
electron microscopy. No particles...
This publication gives an overview of processing cherry production in Oregon and describes cherry cultivars used for brining, freezing, and canning. It also provides information on diverting fresh-market cherries to the processing industry and developing strategies for profitability.