• Pollination under artificial lights

  December 18, 2018

  conditions and climates. Its Natupol hives are under continuous development and feature the latest innovations for optimal pollination of greenhouse fruit and [...] and vegetables. The best practices and advice it now shares with growers is based on more than 30 years’ experience in the field and valuable growers’ feedback [...] on and growing lights' gives advice on when to open and close hives, the best placement of hives, the benefits of its ‘Bee vision’ innovation, and influencing

• Eggplant

  nightshade and is widely produced for its tasty fruit. In North America and Australia the fruit is called eggplant and in South Africa and Southeast Asia [...] genus Solanum and is thus related to the tomato and potato. Botanically speaking however, the eggplant is classified as a berry. The fruit contains many [...] many small and soft seeds. These seeds taste rather bitter, because they contain nicotinoid alkaloids, just like tobacco.

• Bacterial spot

  with lesions on the petioles and stems and form long dark streaks. On fruits, first small black specks are seen on green fruits. The specks grow into brown [...] are also round and small to start with and slightly raised from the leaf surface. They occur on the abaxial (underside of) leaf surfaces and may enlarge into [...] which become rough and light brown. On fruits the spots are first small, circular and green but they turn brown, become raised and look like cracked scab

• Pear psylla

  Europe and can inflict serious damage in pear orchards. Damage symptoms Pear psylla feeding leads to growth inhibition and malformation of leaves and fruits [...] infestations can cause premature leaf fall and fruit drop. Flowers attacked by first generation nymphs turn brown and die. Feeding later in the season may affect [...] fruits with a sticky black layer. Life cycle and appearance of Pear psylla Adults pear psyllas are 2-3 mm long and orange red to blackish. They have white

• Drososan

  beginning of the adult flights and fruit development in surrounding trees and shrubs. Traps will be less effective once fruit starts to ripen. Combined use [...] such as climate, crop and pest density and should always be adjusted to the particular situation. The trap density typically ranges from 1-20 per hectare. [...] Use the Drososan trap for monitoring and trapping spotted wing drosophila in combination with Fruit Fly Attractant . Pests Spotted wing drosophila ( Drosophila

• Cherry

  Morocco and Tunisia and up north in the Trondheimsfjord region of Norway and in the Caucasus and northern Iran. Cherries even grow in a small and isolated [...] species of cherry and a flowering plant that belong to the rose family of Rosaceae . Cherries are indigenous to Europe, Anatolia, Maghreb and western Asia. [...] Himalaya. The sweet cherry is regarded as the most important ancestor of today’s cultivated cherry and it is one of two cherry varieties most of the current

• A life-long commitment to help growers thrive with sustainable growing practice

  December 10, 2024

  both locally and abroad. This is very important when growers start out and our consultants play a vital role during the introduction and rollout.’ Making [...] introduce our beneficial organisms and in what numbers. ‘We really understand our beneficial insects and mites and how they work, and we have the advantage of producing [...] comes to cultivating greenhouse vegetables and ornamentals . Our consultants are at hand to let individual growers and companies know when to introduce

• Fruit grower uses Natupol Tripol for outdoor pollination

  Fruit grower Alfred Verstegen works together with his brother and nephews on their fruit company, Verstegen VOF in Opijnen, Gerlderland. Six years ago [...] apple and pear orchards. Situated in the Betuwe fruit growing region of the Netherlands, the 80-hectare orchard grows apples on 45 hectares and pears on [...] Maribelle, Gala, Red Prince and Golden delicious. Pears include Conference, Tessa and Migo. ‘Our oldest apple plot is 15 years old and the youngest is one year

• Mushroom

  spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. Edible mushrooms are the fleshy and edible fruit bodies [...] whites, crimini, and portobello. Many other mushroom varieties are also commercially available as growers and breeders search for new and unique tastes for [...] by criteria that include absence of poisonous effects on humans and desirable taste and aroma. Most mushrooms sold in supermarkets have been commercially

• Bruchid Beetle Trap

  which attracts the male and female weevils into the trap. Once in the trap, they cannot escape and are easy to detect, count and identify. Presentation [...] the Bruchid trap when flight of adult beetles is expected from the end of March during vegetative growth (depending on geographic location). Bruchid beetle [...] Use the Bruchid Beetle Trap for monitoring and trapping broad-bean weevils in outdoor crops. Pests Broad-bean weevil ( Bruchus rufimanus ). Crops Beans