Siófok Fruit Company

Zsanett Fazekas

Internship

• Siófok fruit company • 2012 • Fruit, crop production• More than 250 ha• Peach, apricot, apple, quince, pear,

cherry, sour cherry, walnut, maize and sunflower in rotation

quince- birsalma

Main activities• Research :– Frost damage monitoring in the fruit orchard– Effection of the frost protection methods

• Plantations:– apricot– peach– cherry– sour cherry– apple– pear– walnut

• pruning cherry, sour cherry, peach plantations

• note the beginning of the anthesis, the flower drop

• planting sour cherry saplings

• tie down the branchespruning- metszésanthesis- virágzásflower drop- virághullássapling- csemetebranches tie down- vázkar lekötözés

• make the journal of chemical control

• ecological pest management

• thinning in the peach, apricot plantation

• harvest and the post harvest handling

journal of chemical control ~ gazdálkodási naplóthinning- ritkítás

Survey• Winter-injury: Marc• Frost damage: April• The frost arrived at the beggining

of the flower differentation (spring)• The flower bud most sensitive • Examine the frost damage in the

flower bud and other parts of the flower

• Cutting the flower buds…• Sign of the damage the discoloured

parts • Result: infertile flower

winter injury- téli fagykárfrost damage- fagykárflower bud- virág rügyinfertile- terméketlen

Frost protection methods• sprinkler irrigation• hot caps• special machine

(Frostbuster)• main point: keep the area

within positive temperature

sprinkler irrigation- esőztető öntözőhot caps- fagyvédelmi gyertyaFrostbuster- fagyvédelmi gép

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