date:Dec 10, 2013
mperatures below 15 degrees to achieve good flowering. The region experienced a warmer than usual winter which did not arrive until August and then ended very quickly. This delayed the onset of flowering which usually happens in June and caused the fruit to drop.
Usually when the fruit gets to golf ball size, the trees naturally drop some, but this year, the fruit got to pea size and dropped.
Piata Farms has three Northern Territory orchards - two at Katherine and one at Mataranka - with appro