Darwin mechanical blossom thinning
Ensure profitable harvests with increased fruit quality and reduced labor bill!
-Controlled thinning that you see directly after execution
-Thins without chemical use
-Increase in fruit size and quality by increasing early sugar allocation to limited number of fruit
-Reduces biennial tendencies
-Fast travel speed ensures high treated area per hour
-Thinning can be performed in all weather conditions
-Can be used for all current cultivars
Characteristics
Excellent fruit size and quality achieved by mechanically thinning with Darwin
Mechanical thinning with Darwin is safer and can be more effective than thinning with chemical substances. It’s also quicker and less labor intensive than manual thinning.
The chemicals used to thin pome fruit are costly, and the success of the thinning depends very much upon weather conditions, the ambient temperature and many other unpredictable factors. A second round of chemical thinning is often necessary and is usually followed thereafter by manual thinning. There are currently no reliable chemical thinning techniques used in stone fruit.
With Darwin you can see your thinning results immediately. You can adjust the level of thinning achieved the first time through the orchard to best fit your production goals. The effect of crop rotation is eliminated, which is very difficult when using chemical solutions because of the very early thinning period.
Then again, thinning by hand doesn’t achieve the same fruit quality and it also leads to constant, high costs. In addition, it is increasingly difficult to find suitable workers for this tasks.