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Container growing citrus - Undercover Production systems

7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago

Apologies if this has been posted before, but I found the short article had some really interesting findings regarding containerized production (in general) of fruit under a greenhouse cover system (to protect from HLB, etc)

One of the most striking comments in the article we can glean a little insight from:

"Fruit produced were of sufficient quality to sell commercially, albeit with low boxes per acre. Grapefruit yield was higher inside the screen houses (0.29 boxes per tree; 228 boxes per acre) than outside (0.04 boxes per tree; 30 boxes per acre), due to the absence of HLB inside. Yield did not differ between in-ground trees and potted trees inside the screen houses or outside. This was quite a surprising result, since vegetative canopy growth was significantly greater for the in-ground trees. "


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