Small, but beautiful: apple season after action report

摘要

As the Chilean apple harvest season draws to a close, growers have reported a difficult year marred by small fruit sizes and poor export market conditions, which came about from a combination of both natural and orchard management factors.Growers were worried that they weren't going to have enough fruit on the trees, so they didn't do enough thinning. You have to do chemical thinning at the right times. The result was a heavy crop set. The freezes in the spring were followed by an excessively hot summer, stunting the apples' growth and also impacting orchards due to a lack of rainfall in many areas.