Aroniaberry ( Aronia mitschurinii ) produces small pome fruits that possess health promoting compounds. Management practices for orchards are lacking, since aroniaberry is a relatively new crop. Pruning an important cultural practice to optimize fruit yield in orchards. The response of established orchard pruning was evaluated over three years (2020 2022). treatments were as follows: 1) renewal...

Most nashi cultivars require heavy thinning, and this has traditionally been performed by the time labour-intensive practice of hand thinning. Crop load management is a key cost driver for production, but there are limited cost-effective options available growers compared to other pome fruit, especially apples and, lesser extent, European pears. There is, however, potential adapt some thinning ...

Bloom thinning is an important practice that influences the profitability of orchard. Hence, we assessed effect chemical bloom on efficiency and fruit quality ‘RubyS’ apples. Lime sulfur was applied as a agent at 1, 1 + 3, 2 4 days after full (DAFB), non-bloom trees were used controls. Compared to control treatments DAFB DAFB, application 3 greatly decreased number fruits per cluster in both te...

Arboricultural practices such as pruning, artificial bending or fruit thinning are crucial interventions in orchard management and are used for controlling tree size, penetration of light into the canopy and the equilibrium between vegetative and reproductive growth. The aim of this project is to explore the possibility of integrating such practices in a model of apple tree development. To this...

Mango, a tropical fruit of great economic importance, is generally harvested green and then commercialised after a period of storage. Unfortunately, the final quality of mango batches is highly heterogeneous, in fruit size as well as in gustatory quality and postharvest behaviour. A large amount of knowledge has been gathered on the effects of the maturity stage at harvest and postharvest condi...

• The trial was carried out at 2 sites. The vines in both sites were trained to a 2-wire vertical trellis. The only difference was: Site 1 was thinned with a Gregoire G65 harvester, and used three pairs of bow rods to thin the lower third of the canopy. Site 2 used a URM Vinestar harvester, and used four pairs of bow rods to thin the lower half of the canopy. The reason only a portion of the ca...