Initiation and development of high quality flowers - additional information

Flower quality on mature trees and its improvement

The Effective Pollination Period or EPP

The importance of planting well-feathered trees

Nursery and other techniques aimed at improving young tree quality

The influence of rootstock or interstock (interstem)

The importance of tree age and transplanting 'check'

Soil management, irrigation and nutrition

Pruning and training techniques for young trees

Plant growth regulator treatments for young trees

Assessing fruit bud numbers and their quality on trees

Techniques for winter pruning

Summer pruning

Trunk girdling (ringing)

Root pruning

Crop loading and flower or fruitlet thinning/abscission

Physiology of flower initation and development