The Biological Characteristics Of Fruit Varieties

Foreign pollination is a must for fruit production trees of many fruit types and varieties. Despite heavy flower production, fruit trees that tend to produce little to no fruit likely suffer from a lack of effectively-inseminating species. Today, a pollination problem exists for certain fruit varieties such as apples, pears, cherries, plums and almonds. It is surprising to note that in some cases, foreign pollination can actually increase the yield in such varieties as hazelnuts, walnuts, chestnuts and olives.

Generally, quince fruit, apricots, peaches and nectarines do not require foreign pollination. When building an orchard with self sterile varieties, it is imperative to plant inseminating species.

In choosing the inseminating species, factors to be considered are as follows:

• pregnating species and the species to be inseminated should bloom at the same time
• inseminating species should produce pollen in large quantities 
• pollen from the inseminating species should have a high sprout capacity
• the inseminating species should have commercial value
• periodically, the inseminating species should not show
• the inseminating species should bloom at the same time with the species to be inseminated
• the rate of species to be inseminated should be at least 1/9 .

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