Improving ATS effectiveness

November 2012 | AgFirst | Future Orchards® webinar

This Future Orchards® webinar focuses on improving the consistency of ATS blossom thinning. APAL’s archive identifies the session as an AgFirst webinar delivered in November 2012 and places it within the chemical thinning program alongside other crop-load management resources.

ATS is a blossom thinner whose performance is highly dependent on flower stage, spray coverage, weather and rewetting conditions. The broader Future Orchards chemical-thinning material emphasises the need to target newly opened flowers, monitor blossom progression closely and avoid treating ATS as a fixed-rate recipe that can be transferred unchanged between blocks.

For growers revisiting the webinar, the practical value is in understanding ATS as one component of a block-specific thinning plan. Flower density, tree vigour, biennial status, pollination conditions and the likely need for later fruitlet thinning all need to be considered alongside ATS timing.

The archive page provides access to the webinar within the Future Orchards® library. Product labels and current registration requirements should always be checked before applying any thinning product.