Where several physiological and competitive processes occur at the same time in branch growth, and an exponential growth of fruits, which translates into a constant competition for the resources that are generated during the annual period and that are later taken from the pantry of said reserves that accumulate during the post-harvest. The cherry trees bloom in September and in 60/70 days we already face the harvest, the contributions of synthesis are a hard task for the foliage, where the general concepts of foliar aerial index prevail and the health of the foliage ensures a translocation, respiration and movement of photo assimilated towards the new tissues and fruits in formation, which is supported by a strategy of a fertilization program based on N to the soil and the classic nutritional complexes with Mg, B, Ca ++ (base and foliar), which as main objective have to achieve the required reserves of carbohydrates or other nutrients.
To achieve quality fruit, what do we need to produce?
Decision making for the development of a basic nutritional plan for the soil and the dynamics of the contributions of foliar programs based on biostimulants and biohormones must be carried out based on analysis. Measured and controlled, and with products that allow us to be honest about their components and concentrations, as well as the obtaining of the raw materials for said products. At each stage of the different phenological states, it is key to build the information for each field, with particular emphasis on varieties, rootstocks, zones, soils, requiring our technicians to manage data in the analysis of water quality, such as electrical conductivity, nitrogen contributions from our waters, root classification, typifying and evaluating the quality of our plant's ENGINE. For this, we must also include in this analysis process information on the texture and compaction level of our soils, in order to incorporate the concept of "living soil", so recurrent in recent times, which I personally believe is not given the importance it needs; Fulvic and humic acids are an important tool to take into account to promote the development of our sources.
Improving sizes and building dry matter
For any species/variety and producer, the difference in size between the fruit within the same plant will be determined by the size of the cells, at similar amounts of cells. The size of our fruit will be larger as long as our fruit has a greater number of cells, and these are larger. If this concept is internalized, the importance of the growth and biostimulation strategy and the congruence of pruning and thinning can be better assessed by virtue of the opportunity and quality of these tasks. This is relevant, because there is only one opportunity to influence the use of growth regulators, in order to increase cell division and obtain the desired sizes. The load management, whether by fruit center or the load regulation itself, ensures that, complying with the parameters of kilos per hectare, our business will be very profitable.
It is essential to ensure the distribution of the fruit within the tree, helping our cherries to have flavour qualities (Brix degrees) and size, HIGH dry matter content and firmness, a sine qua non condition for long journeys to those Asian markets, which value our fruit.
Timely work
Tasks must be timely, doing things on time and with quality predicts good results, "Success is in the details and success is not a detail”.
Excessive removal of materials during thinning pruning or violent light harvesting stresses our garden (in summer) increasing the risks of bacterial cancer pressure manifestations due to thermal stress. We need to develop friendly techniques in the use of biological and sustainable tools in the fight against this bacteria, also increasing the defenses of the plants themselves using elicitor molecules that trigger responses of ACQUIRED SYSTEMIC RESISTANCE. The use of beneficial microorganisms will help our plant to become stronger, even regulating the use and abuse of products.
- Ricardo Mella Agronomist Exporter Unifrutti Tradres SPA
As Green Universe we are certain that our products represent a great tool for the production of excellent quality cherries, since the stress situations to which plants are subjected due to the demand for photo-assimilates translate into nutritional imbalances that negatively affect the development of both the plant and the fruit.
Current cultivation systems require high production yields of optimum quality and condition. The excessive use of chemical molecules causes an imbalance in the microbial richness of the soil and the leaf surface, which increases the susceptibility of plants to pathogens and their response to abiotic and biotic stress conditions, which translate into quality losses.
This is why Green Universe microbial combinations, specially selected by our R&D department and formulated with 3B technology, have achieved a great capacity for symbiotic interaction with the plant, restoring the microbial balance in the phyllosphere and rhizosphere, generating a positive impact on the development and production of crops.
This activates plant physiology, improving the absorption and translocation of nutrients and considerably increasing tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress, improving cultivation parameters, production and fruit quality.
