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Rock Klenk, a former Omex
employee, who has worked on his
father's farm, Klenk Orchards,
now operates a greenhouse
business full-time. He said
Levity products were used on his
father's cherries and Honeycrisp
apples with good results.
In the orchard's 2017 cherry
season, he remembered, the
trees didn't have much of a June
drop. The trees were almost
overloaded with fruit, he said,
but fertilization helped all those
cherries fill out to a good size,
called nine-row, with most
cherries at 75/64ths of an inch.
" What we saw in cherries was
really promising, " he said. " They
looked really good. We had a
really good crop. "
He's also had luck using SizeN
on mums in his greenhouse,
and seen some success in using
a calcium product from Levity
called LoCal to stave off bitter pit
in Honeycrisp.
" We saw really good results
on bitter pit control, " he said.
" Obviously, you're not going to
control that 100%. It's hard to put
a number on it, but looking at it,
it was hard to find a Honeycrisp
that had bitter pit. "
The science behind SizeN
product makes a lot of sense to
him, he said. While many growers
spread dry urea or calcium nitrate,
the fertilizer in that form isn't
readily available to the plant, while
SizeN is already in an amine form.
A lower amount of nitrogen
can be used and the product has
been stabilized to stay in the soil,
Klenk said.
" It won't leach in the soil,
which, environmentally, that's
good, " he said.
Austin Ochoa, a fifthgeneration
potato grower near
Othello in Washington State's
Columbia basin, said he used
SizeN on his Russet Burbank,
Clearwater Russet and Alturas
processing potatoes, making
two key applications at tuber
initiation and bulking up.
" We really liked the results
and yield, " he said. " We saw an
increase in tubers per plant and
we also did see the increase in
bulking size. "
Ochoa said he had also tried
some other products with
biological organisms for lownitrogen
fertilizer.
" There is some good stuff
about those (biologicals), but
you don't see the same results as
SizeN, " he said.
In the three and a half years
that SizeN has been offered in
the U.S., Levity Crop Science
Managing Director David Marks
said, he's been " refreshed " by
growers' willingness to try
something new and different.
" They will try something
they're skeptical about, " he
said. FGN
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