growing avocados like apples this is the
vision of Allis best the nursery in
South Africa which happens to have
variety of this practice very well
it's called maluma and what happens with
this tree is the branches tend to droop
somewhat so it's good to have these
trellises to keep them upright and to
try and improve the fruit set but there
are still lessons to be learned and I'm
here with Xander ants from the company
eyes ender hi good thanks so tell me how
how how does this develop this you've
got here and what have been some lessons
that you've learned from it yes
obviously it was a huge process of
moving from normal production on our
cottage in South Africa the normal seven
Basilian off we were motivated to go
into I identities to try and improve on
the long-term production but also the
short-term return on investment so we
initially went from 7x3 enough went down
to 800 trees to a stay went up to a
thousand say at g3k and currently we're
standing at ourselves and 200 trees
basically the main objective is to crop
get crop up one of the shortfalls of
normal identity orchards is on
specifically maluma as a starts cropping
it pulls the branches down and you
struggled to get sunlight into the tree
so what we've been trying to do is
trying to get the blonde the cheese to
grow laterally into each other foster so
that you close the gap and get a bit of
vertical I have bitterness on tool usage
and you're critical to increase your
critical mass so what we've been trying
to do is pulling up the branches we were
very impatient and so unfortunately the
first trial within onto your old trees
because we just wanted to get a feel for
what the what the avocado variety will
be and what maluma specifically will do
on trellising and the major concern was
we didn't want the unnecessary sunburn
on the fruit so we went and put up a
trellis look at liquid different designs
did a wire spacing of 300 millimeter
between the
the wires and we feel that we just saw
that we should get a fuel for what the
tree does and currently we're very happy
with the results flowering has improved
tremendously and as you can see the
growth of the lesser also a lot better
even with this tree if you Icarus is
already closing up between the trees so
what we find it in time by chance is
where the sunlight getting into the main
stem of the tree
we're getting more and more flower on
the branches and even direct flower of
the stems of the street so it's a very
ask about the fruit of the tree so we
are very happy with the results as you
can see with this fruit down here this
is also looking very very promising I
think we are not yet at a point where we
get better crop of the trees necessarily
but you did get better packet we do get
bit of back out currently the back out
seems like it's about 20 to 30% better
saw the industry say that fruit size
increase although with avocados we
haven't seen it yet but it's not a
problem with Mademoiselle uma already
produces much bigger fruit so basically
going forward our decision was to put in
our first commercial block the
commercial block is 2308 m38 trees and
the idea is to put up vertical systems
with different wire spacing so we bring
down the wire lighting basically show
off of this little while away so it
would be under the prestige buy things
and then we doing 200 meet millimeter
striking so it will be roughly there