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Kym Green Bush (KGB) The Kym Green Bush (KGB) is a free-standing tree that consists of multiple temporary vertical fruiting units to moderate tree vigor, enabling the system to be grown with full-size or semi-dwarfing rootstocks. The vertical fruiting units are renewed regularly to keep spurs young and productive. The KGB is the
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- Understanding The Natural Tree
- Training System Options
- Rootstock Options
- Sweet Cherry Growth and Fruiting Habit
Undisturbed in its native environment, the young sweet cherry (Prunus avium) will grow as a central leader tree. Growth is rapid and apical dominance is strong. Thus, the tree tends to branch only just below the terminal bud of annual growth, can grow to 60 feet, and is non-precocious so it can establish a competitive “footprint” in the forest befo...
Consider carefully before selecting a training system. Make the right choice for your orchard by understanding the intensity of required management and how training factors interact to promote flower bud initiation, vegetative growth, and renewal wood when and where it is advantageous. Realize that the recommended tree and row spacings, target shoo...
Just as training systems modify the natural growth habit of the tree, the choice of rootstock impacts tree growth and response to training system techniques. Therefore, training system and rootstock must be considered together, along with vigor of the orchard site (i.e., soil quality and growing climate); some training systems are more or less suit...
To be successful with any training system for sweet cherry, it is helpful to understand the inherent growth and fruiting pattern of the tree. In nature, sweet cherry is a forest tree, genetically programmed to grow a tall trunk and annually form a tier of strongly upright, vigorous branches positioned where the previous season’s growth terminated. ...
May 26, 2015 · Kym Green Bush (All illustrations below are from the publication Cherry Training Systems) The Kym Green Bush (KGB) is the only system of the eight that creates a fully pedestrian orchard—one that can be harvested without ladders or platforms. Tree formation is easy and requires minimal labor; mature pruning is simple and follows a repeatable plan.
Jun 29, 2017 · Some cherry growers expand, some scale back on labor-friendly Kym Green Bush systems. June 2017 Issue. Ross Courtney // June 29, 2017. Gipp Redman instructs growers how to winter prune KGB cherry trees in December 2015 in an orchard near The Dalles, Oregon.
A modification of the Spanish Bush system, developed by Australian grower Kym Green with additional modifications by others, eliminates much of this complexity and has been widely planted. System development. This system, widely known as the KGB system, is a renewable multi-leader bush system.
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Mar 9, 2023 · the Kym Green Bush (KGB) the Spanish Bush (SB) the Upright Fruiting Offshoots (UFO), which is a trellised system to create either a vertical narrow fruiting wall (UFO) or dual inclined narrow fruiting walls (UFO-Y).
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Kym Green Bush (KGB) The Kym Green Bush (KGB) is the only system covered in this manual that creates a fully pedestrian orchard — one that can be harvested without ladders or platforms. Tree formation is easy and requires minimal labor; mature pruning is simple and follows a repeatable plan.
