"This season in Washington, we have lighter crop load on the trees. This of course has direct effect on fruit size and requires different irrigation strategies, especially in young trees", Says WA Territory Manager and Soil & Water Agronomist, Iftach Shalev Rosenbach.
"In some blocks we're seeing a rapid increase in size for this time of season. Catching this 'size inflation' on time and adapting irrigation to reduce size and put the fruit back on Phytech's trajectory curve, immediately translates into the growers' business goals".
Easily spotting oversized blocks
"In a very competitive market, where the consumer has many options and also is prone to pick more sustainability-oriented brands, our fruit customers have an edge over the competition with real-time fruit size maps and alerts, fruit growth and trees' growth rate and health data that drives smart irrigation decisions", adds Shalev Rosenbach.
On the left is an example of 2 blocks experiencing oversize fruit as can be easily detected in the fruit layer feature
Another indictor: Daily fruit growth rate
You can also spot the trend by viewing the fruit size growth rate in the plot graph's view . In this example, on a cosmic block, daily fruit growth is way above 0.65 mm, which should have been the rate for this variety in this time of season.
Getting the fruit back on track
In the example below, we can observe the immediate effect of reducing irrigation on fruit size (circled in red) and the relation to soil moisture level at the active rootzone. Reducing irrigation for this grower resulted in reduced fruit size
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