Greetings everyone,
Today I’m sharing a part what orchardist do for maintaining their crop in winters on high altitudes.
It is known to all that maximum population of northern Himachal Pradesh are into orchards. It contributes a-lot to state’s economy.
Growing orchards require maintenance and care like any other crop. We live in area of Elevation / Altitude: 2086 meters above Seal level. Temperature during winters goes down to -1 to -6 at times.
During winters different types of sprays are done for apple trees to keep them safe and healthy in winters. One of them is (TSO) Tree Spray Oil . This is mostly done in ending December or beginning of January.
It took us 4 hours to spray all over the plot. We were only two persons that is why it took us some time and our plot of apple crop is divided in two parts and they are not near each other.
We have a power sprayer for this purpose as apples need different sprays in different seasons. It comes with different lengths of pipes according to your needs.
It almost took us 10-15 minutes to just only open the lid of container of oil as it was sealed pretty good. We unrolled the pipes and spreading them all over the plot after connecting them to the spraying machine.
After spreading the pipes we mixed the oil in container used for spraying. We usually use 500 or 1000 litres container for spraying.
We put 7 litres of oil in every container.
After mixing the oil well we started spraying the mixture on trees. We could see the difference after spraying. The trees with no oil were different in colour and trees with oil sprayed on them were different in colours.
While my brother was spraying I got the time to capture of of his photographs doing his work.
I could not get any closer pictures of him as the oil would get sprayed all over me. But I took some pictures of how the trees and surrounding looks in winter with no leaves and no grass.
The following pictures are how trees were looking after the spraying part was done.
All these pictures were taken by me on my iPhone 11 camera.
After everything was done we packed everything back rolled the pipes and took the back home. The whole process was very tiring but looking it as the caring for our apple trees, keeping them healthy and as a future investment makes the process worth everything.
I really hope you like it so I can make more parts on how we maintain our orchards.
Thank you
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