07.08.2024

Late summer inspection

Summer has progressed and it is interesting to see the condition of the groves. The fruits on the trees will now be clearly visible so that an initial assessment of the harvest can be made.

As feared, the heat wave at the beginning of June destroyed the flowers of most trees. Accordingly, the trees are left fruitless. Nevertheless, a proportion of the trees – around 15% of them – managed to produce fruit. These trees are probably found in the fresher or more humid parts of the groves, such as on the lower parts of slopes or along the banks of streams. The latter are usually dry – except during thunderstorms – but they seem to transport moisture in some way, through the ground or through the air.

“Heavenly” fruits!

Small but healthy and robust fruits!

The branches of these few trees do not bend under the weight of the fruit (as one would have liked to see), but under these circumstances one should perhaps be satisfied that they at least bear moderately fruit. And what is particularly pleasing is that the fruits of all the trees are robust and healthy. The question that now arises is to what extent the trees will be able to retain these fruits until the first rainfalls. This summer has been warm and without rain so far and it may still take a while for the first rains and for temperatures things to drop. Will the tree have to wither and drop fruit by then?

I think though that the tree is very “attached” to its fruits! It will do its best to preserve them all to maturity. And I am optimistic that it will largely succeed. The Manaki tree is native here, which means that the experience of this region has shaped its essence. So, my guess is that it will also know how to handle this year’s challenge!

We also prepared a short video about this visit and posted it on our YouTube channel:

Late summer inspection

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