My 2 cents.
I wouldn’t be that confident on effect of reduce nitrogen on lowering size
fruit.
In our trials, with very good soil conditions, and good climate (well...
usually), leading to nitrogen release from the soil, and nitrogen storage in
wooden tissues :
- We get a very slow impact of
Hello all
On our trials, effects of MCP are as you know, very impressive on firmness,
less weight loss, shriveling, scald... without residues (to my knowledge) with
few at no environmental impact... and so on... but at a cost. The one you now
which is money, and an other one more insidious
Hello
In our conditions 'France South West' If we speak about an experimental apple
plot with tremendous pollination, space and light, an easy variety, perfect row
and tree spacing, a full vegetative hedgerow on M9 stock, on one specific easy
year with plenty of work to thin at the best time,
Both need care, after a few years you also have to repair bins plastic soles,
it's less easy compared to wood.
We had some years ago, off flavor in apple (specially industrial compote).
Studies determined that wood treatments were involved.
Wood treatments are done very early in the wood
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Hello all
I have been told that in Canada in case you want to purchase a phytosanitary
compound, you need to give the retailer a paper like a prescription.
Is it right, does someone can describe me and the list, the situation...
Our growers are tempted to go this way thinking to share
Hi Maurice
To my knowledge there is no translation of the book. Since the concept was
created in our orchards here in Lanxade Centre (near Bergerac South West of
France), I shall be able to answer all questions.
The first rows of this training system were planted in 1995 for better access
to
Hi Rye
We are working hard on these topics.
You will find here after a link to a pdf file (sorry French speaking) were you
can see a picture of a Darwin system working at full bloom a short English
summary, and some tables that you can understand...
Hi Claude
I agree with Dave on dapple apple viroïd hypothesis
You will find here after a link on the description of the disease in our book
on Viruses diseases of fruit trees.
You are lucky its one of very few books that were published in English...!!
See in the last page the table with variety
Hi Jose
In very few words... from my basic knowledge
For apple the main source of patulin is penicillium fungi mould in our
conditions (western Europe), this could be different in other climates. Other
fungi are producing toxins...
To avoid the occurrence of penicillium mould on fruit, in my
Hello all, two more cents
Rootstock has a major effect on the ability for a tree to bear a specific ratio
of commercial fruit per cube meter of canopy. I agree that the leaves of the
variety need to synthesize the same amount of carbohydrates per fruit. But
would it be possible that the
Hello
In our conditions such conditions (temps x duration) would only suggest to me
the probability of frost rings (russet rings at the stem surroundings) you
keep the fruit load more or less and you have a big job to do to carefully hand
thin.
We are facing cool temperatures too here,
Hi all.
In early 80's I made a study about determinism of peach fruit size and fruit
quality with the scope of giving some clever briefing to peach pruners and hand
thinners.
At that time we were not that trapped in computers, we were more at the fields
trials but our filing (paper folders) was
Hello to all apple croppers.
Here in France we are playing with club varieties from more than ten years now.
Some are great success, some known as failure, some developed specifically for
organic farming and short distance sales...
Some are nursery driven, some are growers driven with grower
Hello all.
I am used with chimeric mutations forward and backward on red del, gala
strains... but never saw one for golden. Never heard about red mutants from
Golden, it drives my opinion to this being a fake, but I would be pleased if
this mutant would be from real life, and would be pleased
Hello
In our area we are used with making fruit from vigour, we try not to use
chemicals or girdling, or root cuts, to lower the global shoot growth. This we
think would drive the orchard to less potential.
In most of the situation, no pruning (at least till fruit set comes), rope
bending, low
Hello to all list members.
We participated on early trial on Mac - Mark with the same exact result
described by Don C. Elfving. I will not add more to this description.
However
- the extent of union disorder was dependant on the variety, some much more
susceptible compare to others.
- we are
France South West Dordogne valley Bergerac
We had a busy night on Easter Monday. We begun all available protection systems
at 2 am ending at 10 am (-3°Celcius at minimum, not that bad, but 8 hour long
below zero).
Short report at this moment (not all damage has appeared yet !):
8 ha with
Hello from South West of France
Some personal thoughts on this variety.
This is an interesting story in France, since the rights are owned by a grower
organisation in an attempt to keep added value closer from the growers. I think
this is the first time that a club organisation is held without
Hi Debbie
Many thanks for information, I had a direct email from Ken Silsby who could not
post directly to apple crop group ( why not?).
I downloaded his and G. Blanpied paper on Cornell Bulletin 221. Nice summary of
a large work on all aspects of harvest date.
Here after the email of K.
Hi from South West of France
I could have written almost exactly the same words for our situation. Amazing
precocity here (William's Bartlett harvested end of July... never seen).
Some more points :
For what concerns colour, we have this year very beautiful reds, strains of
Gala wonderful,
Hello all
We had lot of innovations for hail protection design in our area (south west of
France)ten years ago, including row protection vs entire protection, white nets
vs black or green nets, classical Italian fixed structures vs elastic wires. We
did lot of measurements. The only climatic
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