Apple Farming - Horticulture Information

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How to Improve Apple Conservation by Reducing Bitter Pit

Bitter Pit is a physiological disorder, linked to a calcium deficiency in apples. Symptoms: dark brown or black lesions, results of the breakdown of the cells under the skin, appear on the skin of the fruit only after harvest. Calcium is not very mobile within the trees. Even though soil and leaves are correctly fed with this element, a deficiency can appear on fruits. This is especially true ...

Climacteric and non-climacteric fruits

Most fruits ripen due to the action of ethylene. Ethylene is the hormone known as "the ripening hormone". It is produced naturally in fruits causing the color, firmness, flavor and characteristic ...

Harvest Fruits in Big-Bag Bags

Maja With A New Function of Picking Fruits Into Big-Bag Bags New Solutions MAJA shaking and cleaning machines are the best solution for picking stone fruits like sour cherries, plums and for industrial apples, nuts, almonds, olives, and others. ...

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Complete Apple Ripeness Test System

ART-complete apple-ripeness-test-system for the measurement of starch-content, sugar-content and firmness. Consisting of ART-Soft Database 7.0, ART-lightbox, refractometer RE-32 and FTA GS-15 firmness-tester. Optional available with balance and size-measurement. Calculation of Streif-Index, different evaluation-possibilities (best harvest time, ...) reports for quality-management etc. are ...