The largest and best quality apples and pears grow on two-year-old wood and young spurs.
To develop two-year-old wood, prune trees according to the 1-2-3 rule of renewal pruning.
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Open Tatura with four leaders
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Branchless multi-leader trees open new windows for more efficient production, due to lower cost per unit of fruit, and/or higher price that the orchardist receives per unit of fruit.
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Open Tatura: Minimises wind damage. A 1984 study on wind damage to kiwifruit by three scientists from the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries showed that, with traditional shelter and trellis systems (T-bar and pergola), around 25 per cent of fruit was wind-damaged.
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Promotion: The virtues of the Tatura Trellis were widely publicised through field days, workshops, Agnotes, research reports and numerous articles in local, national and overseas papers, and in agricultural and horticultural magazines.
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Blueprint for efficient orchard: In 1973 the time was ripe to combine the different fields of expertise to develop a blueprint of a modern and efficient orchard system.
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