Growing Cherries
Cherry Bugs
Cherry Diseases
Cherry Quality Criteria
QC Tools
100
Can you name some early cherry varieties?
Chelan
Tieton
Cristalina
Santina
100
In order to increase pollination, an apple grower may plant this kind of tree within a block?
A crabapple tree.
100
What apple disease can be caused by rain, if the disease was present in the orchard last year?
Apple Scab
100
How many days ahead of last season are we? (at this point)
7-10 days
100
Husk fall can be an important time to control what bug in Nectarines?
Thrips
200
What determines the size of a cherry tree?
The rootstock
200
What does "biennial" mean, when describing the cropping nature of an apple tree/block?
Biennial bearing describes an irregular or low cropload from year to year.
Too much fruit set and not enough thinning can cause the tree to go "biennial" or "off".
200
Nectarines are very susceptible to what "powdery" disease?
Powdery Mildew
200
What nutrient is applied to cherries and apples to build strong cell walls?
Calcium
200
What insect are cherry growers spraying for, in the south, this week?
Western Cherry Fruit Fly
300
What percentage of cherries grown in Canada are from BC?
95%
300
This kind of apple training system is called?
High density or
Super Spindle
300
What primary disease of pears can infect during bloom?
Fireblight
300
What apple variety was birthed out of a ditch in the Similkameen?
Ambrosia
300
What is the name of the vinegar fruit fly first showed up in blueberries, on the lower mainland, in 2007?
It is now an primary insect pest of berries, cherries and other soft fruit.
SWD
Spotted Wing Drosophila 
400
What is a name for a "dwarfing" rootstock for cherry?
Gisela
400
Name at least one reason it is important to thin apples?
Size
Return bloom
Less cost for manual hand thinning
400
What is this peach disease called?
Peach leaf curl
400
The first apple bloom to open is called?
The King bloom.
400
What "piercing/sucking" little black bugs can cause clusters of cherries to be sticky and grow Sooty Black Mold?
Black Cherry Aphid
500
What is sprayed on cherries at "pit hardening" time to help increase the crunchiness of the cherry?
What is Giberellic Acid or GA
500
What is the last apple variety to be harvested in the Okanagan?
Pink Lady or Cripps Pink
500
What is this "disorder", not disease of Staccato cherry called?
Slip Skin
(Slip Skin Maceration Disorder)
500
How might a grower reduce the occurrence of "split pit" in peaches?
Reduce irrigation
500
What "piercing/sucking" insect can cause apple leaves to curl and distort? 
Rosy apple aphid