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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

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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

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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 
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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

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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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