Improving fruitlet growth and quality - additional information

Ensure that fruitlets set with adequate numbers of seeds

Optimise crop loading by judicious thinning of flowers and/or fruitlets

Climatic conditions in the first month after fruit set

Prune and train trees so as to optimise exposure of fruits to light and achieve good colour development

Maintain adequate and balanced tree nutrition and water supply

Avoid use of crop protection or other chemical sprays which may cause damage to the skin of fruitlets (russeting)

Apply gibberellin sprays to improve final skin finish of fruits

The physiology of fruitlet growth

Photosynthesis and carbon supply to the fruitlets

Production and movement within the tree of natural plant hormones