ColourUp on Apples

ColourUp on Apples

Farming with apples is one thing, but farming with apple varieties of colour increases the challenge of producing a higher percentage of superior class apples (with the accompanying higher remuneration), primarily based on colour development. It is not uncommon for...
Adjuvants Trial on Citrus

Adjuvants Trial on Citrus

How do different adjuvants react at different spray volumes when applied with either Spirotetramat or Pyriproxyfen containing insecticides for the control of California red scale on citrus? Introduction It has been well documented that the South African citrus...
Tomato Fertigation & Foliar Program

Tomato Fertigation & Foliar Program

A tomato cultivar fertigation program and foliar spray program combined Hygrotech and Miller products during the production of greenhouse tomatoes in the Ermelo district in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. The combined treatments were allocated to a greenhouse...
Millerplex Trial on Corn

Millerplex Trial on Corn

Millerplex is a proprietary liquid fertilizer containing macro nutrients and sea plant extracts from seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum) for increasing plant biomass and/ or yield on crops (maize, sweetcorn, sorghum, millet, potato and sweet potato). The product is...
Nitrospray Plus

Nitrospray Plus

What is Nitrospray Plus? Nitrospray Plus is a water soluble 7:3:1 nutrient solution with chelated cation micro elements and cytokinins which can be used as a vegetative stimulant or growth stimulant. When should I use it? Nitrospray Plus is formulated to stimulate...
Nu-Film P – Deposition on Onion Leaves

Nu-Film P – Deposition on Onion Leaves

Introduction Onions (Allium cepa) are herbaceous biennial plants and can be propagated anywhere in South Africa. However, the main production areas are located in the Northern and Western Cape, Free State, North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces mostly under...