Product characteristics:
- The product works to break the dormancy phase of deciduous fruit that do not reach their cold needs or work on early ripeness, especially crops required for export, such as grapes.
- Compensates the cooling needs of crops whose needs were not met during the dormancy phase.
- Increases the homogeneity of the emergence of buds from the dormancy phase.
- The product produces flowers in a homogeneous form, which maintains the uniformity of the crop.
- Early emergence of buds and thus early ripeness.
- The ability to distribute the production capacity of a single farm between early and late harvest, depending on the date of the treatment.
General recommendations:
- Take care not to use alkaline water because the product needs an acidic medium.
- The product should be kept away from sunlight and kept at a low temperature.
- Urea should not be added to the solution due to the deformations it causes to the buds.
- It is used on trees in dormancy phase and should not be sprayed in case of appearance of vegetative seedling.
Recommendations and application rates:
|
Crop |
Percentage |
Application time |
|
Grapes |
3 – 5 % |
During January |
|
Apples |
1.5 – 3 % |
During December |
|
Pears |
2 – 3 % |
During January and first week of February |
|
Apricots |
1 – 1.5 % |
During the second half of January |
|
Plums |
1 – 2 % |
During the end of January and the beginning of February (Hollywood plum is delayed for one week) |
|
Peaches and Nectarines |
0.5 % |
According to varieties during December and February |
