Tree Fruit September 2020

Understanding the mechanisms involved in flowering and fruit set can help orchardists to manage crop loads, resulting in improved yields, fruit quality and returns.

Blossom thinners (continued from last issue)
Ammonium thiosulfate...

Multi-leader, two-dimensional (2D) fruiting walls are becoming popular with growers as an intensive production system. This article deals with the development of the tree’s structure, and setting it up for a long productive life.

Fruiting units...

There has been a great effort by Cherry Growers Australia in recent weeks to focus growers to adequately prune for improved quality, to fine-tune nutrition for improved quality, and to assist with the management and timing of application of growth regulators...

Veteran fruit grower Joe Giblett well knows the threat insects and diseases pose to successful orchard production.
Born and bred at Bridgetown in Western Australia’s South West and having been by his father’s side in the family orchard since he was...

Polygro are coming up to 20 years offering turn-key solutions with crop protection products into the horticultural sector.
James Downey, National Sales Manager for Polygro® provides an overview of what Polygro can offer your business to deliver high-quality...

After extensive research, SST has developed a new generation non-ionic surfactant that may soon become the new standard across Australia and New Zealand
Wetout® is a unique proprietary formulation of vegetable based surfactants that improves efficacy...

The main advantage of canopy netting is that it does more than merely deter birds, it excludes them.
Bird netting needs to be hung above the trees to create a canopy.
Throwing a net over trees compromises the net as the tree continues to grow whilst...

Apple and cherry growers have greater control over bud break, flowering and time of maturity when they apply Waiken. Depending on when it is applied, it can be used to bring forward, or to delay bud-break.

Generally:
To advance bud-break, apply 35–50 days...

A common theme of climate change is the greater number of spring frosts challenging growers in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
Whilst average temperatures are rising, there are greater extremes in terms of hot and cold events.

Australia
The Bureau...

Parka is a food-grade elastic biofilm made of phospholipids that protects crops from the effects of excessive water and heat. It is designed to strengthen the plants natural cuticle—the plant's first line of defence.

How: Parka protects epidermal cells...

Fertiliser injection equipment is used to introduce water soluble fertilisers, minerals, pesticides and wetting agents via the irrigation system to increase and improve crop production and delivering directly to the root zone.

The newly developed DOSTEC AC dosing...

Unfortunately the answers to many questions about why and how fruit trees grow and produce fruit are found in scientific journals. These are not written for orchardists.

Grower magazines, seminars, conferences and field days are supposed to translate much of the results from the scientific work....