2. Internship
• Siófok fruit company
• 2012
• Fruit, crop production
• More than 250 ha
• Peach, apricot, apple, quince, pear, cherry,
sour cherry, walnut, maize and sunflower
in rotation
quince- birsalma
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4. Main activities
• Research :
– Frost damage monitoring in the fruit orchard
– Effection of the frost protection methods
• Plantations:
– apricot
– peach
– cherry
– sour cherry
– apple
– pear
– walnut
5. • pruning cherry, sour cherry,
peach plantations
• note the beginning of the
anthesis, the flower drop
• planting sour cherry saplings
• tie down the branches
pruning- metszés
anthesis- virágzás
flower drop- virághullás
sapling- csemete
branches tie down-
vázkar lekötözés
6. • make the journal of chemical
control
• ecological pest management
• thinning in the peach, apricot
plantation
• harvest and the post harvest
handling
journal of chemical control ~
gazdálkodási napló
thinning- ritkítás
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9. Survey
• Winter-injury: Marc
• Frost damage: April
• The frost arrived at the beggining of
the flower differentation (spring)
• The flower bud most sensitive
• Examine the frost damage in the flower
bud and other parts of the flower
• Cutting the flower buds…
• Sign of the damage the discoloured
parts
• Result: infertile flower
winter injury- téli fagykár
frost damage- fagykár
flower bud- virág rügy
infertile- terméketlen
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13. Frost protection methods
• sprinkler irrigation
• hot caps
• special machine (Frostbuster)
• main point: keep the area
within positive temperature
sprinkler irrigation- esőztető
öntöző
hot caps- fagyvédelmi gyertya
Frostbuster- fagyvédelmi gép
