This manual gives you instructions on how to start, manage and grow apricots profitably on a tree training system called Open Tatura.
94 pages of information, photos and illustrations
What you will find in this manual
Tree training & trellis
- High density
- Open Tatura
- Tree shape and size
- V-shaped canopy
- Open Tatura with four leaders
- Orchard specifications
- Efficient tree structure
- Branchless four-leader concept
- First year—establish four dominant leaders, Second year plus—tree training
- The leader-renewable method
- Extinction of spurs
- Sequence of renewal after six years
Grow large apricots
- Adequate nitrogen reserves
- Thin fruit early
- Trim spurs in autumn
- Plant good quality nursery trees
- Varieties and rootstocks
Crop protection
- Bacterial gummosis—canker, infection, prevention
- Crown Gall
- Frost
- Hail net—types, colour, bee activity
Nutrition
- Calcium in the soil, tree and fruit
- Pre-harvest Ca sprays, post-harvest dip
- Nitrogen fertiliser: young trees—first year, bearing trees, second year & beyond
- Nutrients
- Importance of roots
- Spring growth
- Storing nitrogen
- Soil test, leaf and sap analysis
- Soil organic matter—importance
Management
- Winter chill—cold units
- Minimise risk of delayed foliation
- Pollination and fruit set—understand; bees, hive numbers, quality
- Keep trees thirsty after harvest
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