{"id":868,"date":"2016-01-11T16:50:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/?p=868"},"modified":"2016-01-12T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T15:28:12","slug":"los-melocotones-tempranos-podrian-sufrir-una-importante-merma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/en\/los-melocotones-tempranos-podrian-sufrir-una-importante-merma\/","title":{"rendered":"Early peaches could suffer a significant decline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photography by Fernando Galindo<\/p>\n

High temperatures for the time of year we are in could greatly harm the harvest of early and extra-early varieties of nectarines and peaches.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The average temperature in the fields of Cieza so far this winter is well above the usual, which is around 10 degrees Celsius (so far this winter the average is above 13\u00ba), which can mean an early budding of flowers of early peach and nectarine varieties, about 20 days ahead of what would be normal.<\/span>
\nThese varieties, which are harvested at the beginning of May, are about to sprout; and its flowering may be imminent and the buds of the trees would hatch within seven or fifteen days if the thermometer continues to register above what is usual in the month of January. Late varieties could also be affected if there are no variations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The local president of Coag, Manuel Mart\u00ednez, indicated that "if the fruit trees do not hibernate as necessary, that is, they do not get the necessary number of hours of cold, production can be significantly reduced in terms of quantity and quality. Insufficient setting may occur, which would cause a lack of fruit on the branches and the consequent decompensation of the trees.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is more risk of frost<\/b><\/p>\n

On the other hand, the later the flowering occurs, the more risk of frost there will be for the farms, to the point that, if the temperature does not change, in a week a 70% or 80% of the extra-early varieties could begin to flower, which are They would be exposed to the action of a cold wave towards the end of January, which would entail "incalculable damage" in all areas of the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under normal circumstances, flowering should occur in about 20 days, but, with current conditions, the precocity would be about 8 or 10 days, so the advance by half a month would cause 15 more days of risk of frost. Mart\u00ednez predicts that it will not be cold until the end of January; "Everything depends on the moons," he concluded.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photography by Fernando Galindo High temperatures for the time of year we are in could greatly harm the harvest of early and extra-early varieties of nectarines and peaches. The average temperature in the Cieza fields so far this winter is well above the usual temperature, which is around [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melocotondecieza.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}