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Seedling Tree Selection and Numbering

Protocols of excellence for Seed

Seedling Tree Identification Fruit Picking Fruit Marking Leaf Collection for Sun Blotch Virus Testing Sun Blotch Virus Testing Hand, Surface and Utensil Sanitizing Cutting Open Avo Fruit Seed Size Selection Seed Marking Seed Cutting Seed Dipping Seed Drying Seed Bed Preparation Seed Planting Seed Painting Drench Transfer Seed from Bed to Bag

Protocols of excellence for Nursery

Water Pathogen Planting Medium Pathogens Irrigation Filter Irrigation Chlorinator Phytophthora & Pythium Soil and Water Sample Testing Raised Beds Sanitation Dust Control Equipment Sterilization Hosepipe Storing Avo Nursery Equipment Other Plants Entry and Access Visitors Tree Numbers and Dates

Protocols of excellence Transplanting

Bed Sterilization Bag Filling Hand Sanitizing Removing Seed From Seedbeds Replant of Seed not Rooted Removing Bent Roots Protecting Seed from Sun Seed Depth Covering Seed Drench After Planting Fertilizing

Protocols of excellence for Grafting

Grafting Equipment Graft Wood Size and Width How to Graft Sterilization Gazebo Marking of Grafted Trees Inspection of Grafts Removing of Side Shoots Protection of Grafted Trees

Protocols of excellence for Order Selection of Seedlings

Seedling Size and Height Root inspection Leaf inspection Seedling Marked

General Protocols of excellence

Smoking Lunch Bags Food Waste Fences Dustbins Drains

Protocols of excellence for Dispatch

Visual Inspection Documentation Photos Driver or Customer Signature

An example of a protocol

• Seedling Tree Identification Protocol
• Visual inspection is done of several trees in an identified

area.

• Trees must be healthy with dark green leaves and no

visible signs of disease.

• Trees must also have an above average number of fruit.
• Fruit must be dark green, large and round.
• The trees that pass the visual inspection is then marked &

numbered with white paint.

Annal Sunblotch Viroid (SBV) Testing

Fruit Selection

• Generally only large seeded fruit

is selected

Fruit Cutting and Seed Selection

Seed size selecting and seed cutting

Seed Cutting and Dipping

Seed planted in Seedbeds

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• Any deformed root systems are

culled during this process

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SEEDLING GROWTH IN IN TH THE NURSERY

ROOT GROWTH

Seedling selection for an order

Nursery Grafting

SEEDLING GRAFTING

SE SEEDLIN ING DISP ISPATCH - Mpumala langa

Grafted tree dispatch