Along with early season frost, substantial rainfall can be a cherry grower’s worst enemy.

Some farmers are expecting to lose roughly half of their crop.

Early-summer showers are causing problems for local cherry farmers.

While there may be fewer cherries this season, those that managed to grow are larger and juicier, B.C. producers say.

"They will be able to determine if an apple tree will produce crisp fruit before that tree is even old enough to flower for the first time."

There are predictions of a record cherry crop in the Okanagan.

Coral Beach Farms, situated on Shanks Road at the Kelowna/Lake Country border, is one of the largest, if not the largest cherry companies in the Okanagan with acreages all over the Central Okanagan and it's about to get bigger.

With precipitation in the forecast Sunday, no one is looking forward to rain more than Okanagan fruit growers.

"If something was that severe you'd think it'd be on the packaging."

BC Tree Fruits grower Darcel Markgraf shows hosts Lynn Colliar and Shanel Pratap how to make spicy chicken with cardamom cherries.