Seedling Tree Selection and Numbering Leaf Collection Seedling - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Seedling Tree Selection and Numbering

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

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

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

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

Seedling Size and Height Protocols of excellence for Root inspection Order Selection of Leaf inspection Seedlings Seedling Marked

Smoking Lunch Bags General Food Waste Protocols of Fences excellence Dustbins Drains

Visual Inspection Protocols of Documentation excellence for Photos Dispatch 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

Pre-germ rmin inated see seed sel selected fr from om see seedbeds for or tran tr anspla lantin ing into bag bags in n the the nur nursery ry • Any deformed root systems are culled during this process

Transpla lanted in into well ll drain ined, steril iliz ized, , mil ille led pin ine bark

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