THU, SEP 26 2024
16:15:00
- Author: Mark Bolda
Published on: October 7, 2021
Thanks to Doug Thomas of Crown Nursery for providing the photo to start off a series over the next few weeks on chill accumulation in MacDoel of our day neutral strawberries, in this case the ever popular Monterey.
Total accumulation of chill by 10/7 in Macdoel when this picture was taken was 245 hours (thank you Lassen Canyon Nurseries for tracking this info and posting it) between the critical temperatures of 33 and 45 degrees, offset by 274 + 61 hours above 60 degrees since Sept 1 (that being 61-80 degrees and 80-100, respectively).
Anyone interested can go to the Lassen Canyon website to track chill hours for this year. Also, the site provides chill data from the previous 2 years which can help determine planting dates for this season. Type in Lassen Canyon Nursery, then select Chill Hours then select the Macdoel Ranch.