TYPICAL OBSERVATIONS IN VARIOUS CROPS WHERE YIELD PLUS HAS BEEN USED IN COMPARISON WITH PLANTS WHERE YIELD PLUS HAS NOT BEEN USED:

• Better vegetative growth
• Better developed root structure
• Less shedding of flowers and fruit
• Earlier harvests

Tomatoes:

• Longer flowering / more generations flowers / longer production, eg: Tommie Frick of Robertson, South Africa spent R 650 and 3 months later gained an additional R 17 000 per hectare. This is the difference between spending and investing.

Grapes (wine):

• Higher sugar, increased mass

Export stone fruit:

• Higher sugar
• Easier packing / more uniform fruit size

Sweet melon:

• Longer flowering period, longer production