Dear all,
I was in Indonesia for two weeks and also visited some places in Java island of
that country. I had a VERY BIG SURPRISE of my life there. In Batu area of
Java I saw apples being cultivated. This are is around 3000 ft above the seaas
level, at 6 degrees south of equator. The
Hello Dr. Parmar,
Just a suggestion, but production of ABA, which regulates dormancy, is
encouraged by shortening days and lengthening nights. At 6 degrees
south, daylength will not change, so I suspect that there might not be
so much ABA in the buds (especially if defoliation is practised), and
Dr. Parmar:
Apples are cultivated in many tropical locations such as Honduras, Nicaragua,
Uganda, and the Philippines. The branches are trained horizontally and
dormancy is triggered and broken most often by stripping the leaves off by hand
to coincide with the onset of the dry season, when
