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Total PreTection
Firmer fruit Longer storage Increased sugar levels
Sweeter, firmer, better looking fruit. Sounds ideal. Naturally, without pesticides? This will be unfamiliar in today’s chemical dependent culture, but it is possible to reduce rots and decay naturally, working from the inside out.
Plant Health Care’s PreTect technology triggers many natural adrenaline-like biological responses that benefit the fruit after harvest and will increase brix, firmness and nutrient levels so improving quality, yield and shelf-life.
FAST Ltd, Brogdale Farm, Brogdale Road, Faversham, Kent, ME13 8XZ Tel: 01795 533225
Manufactured by Plant Health Care plc
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Increased Calcium Uptake and Mobility
Spray PHC PreTect products on the leaves and the plant’s first response is a systemic release of tissue-related calcium, followed by significant increases in calcium uptake, movement and availability in the plant. Calcium uptake by the roots is increased by up to 25 per cent.
Apple Quality at Harvest and after 3-5 months storage Apple Golden Control Harpin 7.4 10.4 3.2 5.3 5 5.6
Harvest
Parameter
Phosphorous Calcium Acidity
Respiration mg CO2/tm/h
Storage
Firmness Acidity Penicillium Bitter pit Lenticel blotch pit Cracking
Data by ARDA 2001
Apple Fuji Control Harpin 9.4 10.8 3.6 5.3 3.4 4.6
% difference 27.7 56.4 23.6
67
35
64
45
-38.7
12.2 2.4 5% 13% 12.5%
13.5 4.2 1% 0% 1.4%
12.5 1.2 1% 2%
13.1 3.7 0% 0%
16%
9%
7.7 141.7 -90.0 -100.0 -88.8 -43.8
A foliar pre-harvest treatment that increases fruit firmness and gives longer storage potential of top fruit. The harpin alpha-beta protein when sprayed 28 and 14 days before harvest will change the quality of fruit whilst it is on the tree. Increased nutrient loading and reduced respiration of stored fruit gives the benefit of sweeter, better tasting fruit after cold-storage. Another side-benefit is the reduction of cracking, bitter pip and rots forming whilst fruit is in storage. FAST Ltd, Brogdale Farm, Brogdale Road, Faversham, Kent, ME13 8XZ Tel: 01795 533225
www.fastltd.co.uk