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The "Technical Information" pages of the Nuvar® website (which will be added to from time to time) will, hopefully, provide useful information of interest not only to commercial and amateur growers, but also to others, such as advisors, teachers, students etc.
The Head Licensee (who is unable to endorse or accept liability for the contents of articles in this section) would welcome suitable, interesting articles to be considered for possible inclusion in the future.
Please send any contributions to the Head Licensee at nuvar@pepival.com |
 RAISING NEW VARIETIES OF TOP FRUIT By Hugh Ermen |
Raising new varieties can be as simple or as complicated as you wish. The professional plant breeder with excellent facilities and knowledge of genetics will have the best chance of success. However, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Bramley Seedling, Braeburn and Golden Delicious were not the result of professional breeding programmes. POT LUCKThe simplest way to raise new fruits is to sow ripe seeds from your favourite varieties in the autumn. Fruit seeds and stones often require winter chilling to grow in the spring. Seeds are best sown in suitable sized po... >> Read more
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| FRUIT TREES ON THEIR OWN ROOTS By Hugh Ermen |
Today the practice of apple breeders is to work the seedlings on to a dwarfing rootstock to bring them into cropping quickly. It is now well known, but often ignored, that degrees of incompatibility can exist between varieties and rootstocks, especially with dwarfing rootstocks. It is probable that some potentially good varieties have been discarded in the past because partial incompatibility caused the seedling to give a poor performance on dwarfing rootstocks. A better but not necessarily quicker alternative would be to keep seedlings for assessment growing on their own root system. There ar... >> Read more
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