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The emphasis in this manual is to

  • Achieve a full and efficient tree canopy at an early tree age.
  • Sustain optimum fruit production over the projected life of the orchard.
  • Produce fruit of high quality.
  • Use equipment and labour efficiently.

48 pages of information, photos and illustrations 

 

Growing interest in plums

Opportunities to manage trees that produce crops soon after the trees have been planted, and that crop well and give quick returns, have stimulated interest in high density orchards for plums.

 

What you will find in this manual

Plum management 6

Varieties & Rootstocks

  • Plum
  • Peach
  • Cross pollination
  • Nursery tree quality
  • Plumcot, Pluot

Crop protection

  • Crown gall

Plum management 2

Efficient orchard systems

  • Central leader
  • Tatura Trellis
  • Open Tatura

Nutrition

  • How much nitrogen and when
  • Soil test
  • Leaf and sap analysis 
  • Importance of soil organic matter

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Management

  • The most productive wood
  • Cutting-back/spreading fruiting wood
  • Sunlight
  • Different pruning cuts: heading, thinning, bench, stubbing
  • Fruit thinning: when/how/chemical
  • Harvest Plums/Pluots/Plumcots
  • Ripenting and maturity indicies - size, shape, colour, flesh firmness, sugar

Plum management 3

Winter chilling

  • Winter chill for breaking dormancy
  • Chilling requirement
  • Tree response to chilling
 
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