Pome fruits

Pome fruits

Pome fruit crops

Fruit pome crops include apple, pear, and quince plantations, the most common pome crops in European and North American industrial horticulture. All these crops can be grown in extensive and intensive farms. Fruit pome fruits bring a stable harvest on light soils. These cultures love heat, light, but are also cold-resistant. Pear and quince don’t tolerate frost.

Peculiarities

Unlike apple trees, pear and quince trees are more durable and bear fruit for many decades. Their minimum fruiting period is 50 years, while apples bear fruit up to 30 years in an extensive orchard. In intensive horticulture, the fruiting period is sharply reduced, but trees grafted by cuttings and rejuvenating pruning prolong the the garden life.

While laying or re-laying pome orchards, it’s important to pay attention to feeding soils. The soil improver with an intensified effect SatoSoil® pHoenix is suitable for this, since it restores the pH on saline and acidic soils, or SatoSoil® Biome improver is applied once in autumn or before transplanting saplings.

Recall that the activation of SatoHum® soil improvers is carried out with liquid humates SatoHum® K or Sato® Turbo NPK, as the garden soil composition requires.

These soil conditioners contain an environmentally friendly peat-sapropel mixture and are rich in humic and fulvic acids, which extend the buffering of the fertile layer, and serve as bactericidal and fungicidal protection for the root system of fruit trees.

In the fight against insect pests and mycotic microorganisms’ attacks, SatoHum® K also is suggested, applied in higher concentration directly to the leaves and shoots by sprinkling.

To increase the drought resistance and immunity of fruit trees to adverse stress factors – atmospheric, agrophysical, as well as to prevent diseases, the amino acids-containing growth regulator SatoHum® Complex is used, which reduces the incidence and parasites attacks, activates the migratory ability of nutrients and strengthens plants.

Targeted feeding of pome crops with Sato® Turbo organo-mineral fertilizers, both, with NPK or micronutrients, indicated for drip irrigation, correct the deficiency of the essential macro, meso, and trace elements.

4 Sato® Steps – recommendations for fertilization and top dressing for pome fruits

SOILS

VEGETATION BEGINNING

GROWTH

HARVEST

SatoSoil® Biome

Preservation of fertile layer

Top dressing for mulching trunks

Organic soils nutrition

Deep incorporation or mulching
0,5 – 1 kg/bush

SatoSoil® pHoenix

Restoration of saline and acidic soils

Deep incorporation
0,6 – 1,2 kg/m²

SatoHum® K or
Sato® Tubo NPK

Watering the soil improver
2 – 6 ml/10 l of water

SatoHum® Complex /
Sato® Tubo NPK

Complex top dressing with minerals

Systemic micronutrient feeding
0,1 – 0,3 l/ha

SatoHum® K / Sato® Tubo micronutrients

Rectification of meso and microelements starvation
0,3 l/ha

Fighting parasites and fungal diseases
30 – 40 ml/10 l of water

Sato® Tubo K-B / Sato® Tubo K-Mo / Sato® Tubo K-Zn

Feeding with micronutrients
0,3 l/ha

SatoHum® Complex

Fruit plumping

Weight gain

First buds

Ovary of fruits
0,3 l/ha

SatoHum® Complex

Long keeping quality

Before harvesting
0,3 l/ha

WARNING AND GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS: 4 Sato® Steps is a comprehensive crop care system that provides the basic crop needs for the main 12 macro, meso and micronutrients for an optimal growing cycle and unlocking the potential of each crop.

SOILS: In pre-sowing application of SatoSoil® improvers, the minimum rate is introduced; when autumn applying, the maximum rate is recommended. When applying Sato® Turbo organo-mineral fertilizers after SatoSoil® improvers, the minimum rate is applied; if the soil hasn’t been treated, the maximum rate is applied. For irrigation, it’s recommended to activate granulates (soil improvers) with SatoHum® K liquid formulation or Sato® Turbo NPK liquid organo-mineral product.

SEEDS/SEEDLINGS/VEGETATION BEGINNING: Treatment of seeds and seedlings with SatoHum® K formulation is compatible with treatment by classical protectants without reducing the rates of their application, and helps to increase the viability of seedlings, the development of the plant and its fruitfulness.

GROWTH: Our SatoHum® solutions have a guaranteed composition with high content of humic and fulvic acids with amino acids of plant origin. It is not recommended to exceed the total applying dose of SatoHum® liquid formulations over 6 l/ha/season, starting from the germination/seedlings phase. If SatoHum® K is used for prophylactic purposes, it is recommended to apply the minimum dose.

HARVEST: Simultaneous fertilization with several SatoHum® products is not expected, excepting the soil improver’s activation. It’s not recommended to exceed the specified application rates. For single, not systemic application of SatoHum® products, the maximum dosage of the product is recommended.