Sentence examples for chill hours from inspiring English sources

Stone fruits, particularly cherries, require chill hours to bear fruit; too few cold nights, and the trees are less likely to achieve successful pollination.

And as climate change brings warmer springs to Northern apple trees, reducing the number of cold days that apples need to set bud and flower and fruit, Mr. Calhoun pointed out, nurseries may need to replace them with Southern varieties that can take more heat and set fruit with fewer chill hours.

Accumulated annual growing degree days (base 7 °C) vary between 865 and 1131, depending largely on elevation, and accumulated annual chill hours vary between 2100 and 2400 (Pérez and Ponce 2012).

For inland gardens, look for varieties rated for no more than 500 chill hours; for coastal and desert gardens, no than 200 to 300 chill hours.

So you want a plant that only needs "low" chill hours, which is ideal for a Southern California garden.

Blueberries need a certain number of "chill hours" every year — hours when the temperatures drop to between 32 to 45 degrees — in order to yield fruit.

We mapped and investigated observed historic and projected future changes in winter chill in California, quantified with two different chilling models (Chilling Hours, Dynamic Model).

We sit on the benches for a long, chill hour while the sun goes down, waiting for the other two councillors to come up the hill.

Check each plant's tag to find its chill hour rating.

When using the Chilling Hours Model to quantify winter chill, chilling losses were most severe in the SSacV, which lost 51% (B1 scenario), 61% (A1B) and 67% (A2) compared to 1950 winter chill.

The most common chilling model used in the state is the Chilling Hours Model [sometimes referred to as Weinberger Model; 17,18].