Thanks for the wonderful information. I manage our family orchard in north of Iran with about 30% of it with Macadamia trees, and I could feel and absorb every bit of information you gave. Wish you a blessed harvest, and thanks again 🙏🏼 💐🙌🏼
@@ParadiseGardenOrganics Iran! Wow. You must be a true believer - I’d love to know more of your story about how you came to grow macadamias there. Very impressive!
@nutkinfarm As for the macadamia trees, they have been planted in Iran since some decades ago, and sadly, they are nearly all planted from seeds, and you can't find good quality grafted plants here. Our trees are about 15 years old now and we it is the 4th year that many of them are bearing fruits. It seems they are from several varieties, which sadly I can't tell which is which 🤦🏻♂️ but some have really big and hood quality nuts. Our trees blossom usually twice a year, which is not necessarily a good thing, but it seems they like our mild autumn and winters.
I wrote my answer in 2 messages today but can't see the first one here. Anyway, in case you haven't received it, let me know and I will write it again. 🙌🏼💐
Thank you for sharing your experience with harvesting equipment. I have hazelnut trees and am interested in learning more about your harvester. If you have time to talk, I have some questions I was hoping you could answer. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Bob.
@nutkinfarm that was about 7% the rest was insect damage and black nut. They race through 100 tonnes a day they need to slow down and do it properly or install more sorting tables. Also, it doesn't help when 1 harvester can pick up over 15t a day. Plus, we have more trees coming into production, but the sheds aren't getting upgraded to handle the load.
Hi Brett. The leaf litter certainly can be a pest with harvesters. The wheel design scrapes a lot of it off but eventually it can clog up. At that point the operator stops harvesting and manually pulls out the build-up. After harvests it’s often worth going over the blocks with a mower just to break leaves up and minimise downtime on the next round.
Hi Daniel, it’s nice to see your acknowledging that macadamias can handle water, if it goes away. The mounding does not do anything once that soil reaches an ongoing saturation point as observed in 2022, variety and localised soil conditions appear to contribute to tree death from my observations.
Thanks for the wonderful information. I manage our family orchard in north of Iran with about 30% of it with Macadamia trees, and I could feel and absorb every bit of information you gave. Wish you a blessed harvest, and thanks again 🙏🏼 💐🙌🏼
@@ParadiseGardenOrganics Iran! Wow. You must be a true believer - I’d love to know more of your story about how you came to grow macadamias there. Very impressive!
@nutkinfarm As for the macadamia trees, they have been planted in Iran since some decades ago, and sadly, they are nearly all planted from seeds, and you can't find good quality grafted plants here. Our trees are about 15 years old now and we it is the 4th year that many of them are bearing fruits. It seems they are from several varieties, which sadly I can't tell which is which 🤦🏻♂️ but some have really big and hood quality nuts. Our trees blossom usually twice a year, which is not necessarily a good thing, but it seems they like our mild autumn and winters.
I wrote my answer in 2 messages today but can't see the first one here. Anyway, in case you haven't received it, let me know and I will write it again. 🙌🏼💐
@@ParadiseGardenOrganics it all seems there to me - thanks again. You seem to be doing well with the limitations you have! Keep it up :-)
Thank you for sharing your experience with harvesting equipment. I have hazelnut trees and am interested in learning more about your harvester. If you have time to talk, I have some questions I was hoping you could answer.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Bob.
Hi Bob. I can't claim to be any kind of expert on harvesters but I'll help if I can!
One of our farms sent 2 trucks to marquis it came back at 16% and 18%, thankfully the farm I'm on the worst so far is 4% but we are now below 1%.
Ouch Trent. That’s a large reject percentage. What specifically was the reject coming from? Immaturity?
@nutkinfarm that was about 7% the rest was insect damage and black nut. They race through 100 tonnes a day they need to slow down and do it properly or install more sorting tables. Also, it doesn't help when 1 harvester can pick up over 15t a day. Plus, we have more trees coming into production, but the sheds aren't getting upgraded to handle the load.
How does all that leaf lotter on the floor interfere with harvesting? Does that clog up the finger wheels?
Hi Brett. The leaf litter certainly can be a pest with harvesters. The wheel design scrapes a lot of it off but eventually it can clog up. At that point the operator stops harvesting and manually pulls out the build-up. After harvests it’s often worth going over the blocks with a mower just to break leaves up and minimise downtime on the next round.
Hi Daniel, it’s nice to see your acknowledging that macadamias can handle water, if it goes away.
The mounding does not do anything once that soil reaches an ongoing saturation point as observed in 2022, variety and localised soil conditions appear to contribute to tree death from my observations.
2022 sure taught us a lot. I was more amused that in 1976 farmers were told to not let macadamias even fall on the ground!
@@nutkinfarm they didn’t know what was going on back then