Apple Open Tatura (buy)
$66.00
This manual is for anyone concerned with the establishment, management and performance of an Open Tatura apple orchard.
It emphasises how 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 and good size.
168 pages of information, photos and illustrations
What you will find in this manual
Trees & spacing
- Orchard specifications - planting distance
- Methods of training - single leader
- Trellis & anchor specifications
- Rootstock choice
- Polliniser varieties
Pruning
- Renewal pruning
- Root pruning
- Heading cuts
- Double delay-heading
Nutrition
- Calcium in the soil, tree and fruit
- Replacing nutrient losses
- Nitrogen applications
Crop protection
- Apple replant disease (ARD)
- Crown gall
- Hail net and bee activity
- Sunburn, overhead cooling
- Frost
- Phytophthora
Management
- Spreading shoots/branches of young trees - when, crotch angles, apical dominance, bending & arching
- Manage trees in the first 3 seasons
- Scion rooting of apples
- Burr knots
- Watercore
- Avoid skin russet
- How do apples turn red or pink?
- Biennial bearing
- Nine fruit maturity tests
Winter chilling
- Winter chill for breaking dormancy
- Chilling requirement
- Tree response to chilling
- When buds move in spring
Soil preparation
- Prepare the soil before planting
- Soil organic matter
- Soil testing.
- Leaf and sap analysis
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