Plum management (buy)
$22.00
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
Varieties & Rootstocks
- Plum
- Peach
- Cross pollination
- Nursery tree quality
- Plumcot, Pluot
Crop protection
- Crown gall
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
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
Winter chilling
- Winter chill for breaking dormancy
- Chilling requirement
- Tree response to chilling
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