{"id":3188,"date":"2024-05-15T09:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T09:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2024-05-15T09:29:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T09:29:37","slug":"vosmac-macadamia-trial-2023-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/vosmac-macadamia-trial-2023-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"VosMac Macadamia trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August 2023 Nelmac seedlings were transplanted from JIFFY 7C pellets to Air-Pot\u00ae containers and standard 5-litre Letaba bags using a mixed pine bark substrate. Within 4 months a clear difference between the Air-Pot\u00ae and bagged trees could already be seen. The Air-Pot grown trees were on average 10cm taller and the leaf span was double the length of the bagged trees. The Air-Pot grown trees also had greater girth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" data-attachment-id=\"3189\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/vosmac-macadamia-trial-2023-2024\/macademia-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"488,650\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Macademia 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-2.jpg\" data-id=\"3189\" src=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-2.jpg 488w, https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"656\" data-attachment-id=\"3190\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/vosmac-macadamia-trial-2023-2024\/macademia-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"495,656\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Macademia 3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-3.jpg\" data-id=\"3190\" src=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-3.jpg 495w, https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-3-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"3192\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/vosmac-macadamia-trial-2023-2024\/macademia-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-5.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"812,1081\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Macademia 5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-5-769x1024.jpg\" data-id=\"3192\" src=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-5-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-5-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-5-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia-5.jpg 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macadamia rootstocks are generally suitable for grafting when they are 15-18 months old and at least 10mm thick. By April of 2024, 90% of the Air-Pot grown trees had been grafted, 6 months ahead of the expected grafting time.\u00a0By this time only 10% of the trees in bags were big enough to be grafted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2023 Nelmac seedlings were transplanted from JIFFY 7C pellets to Air-Pot\u00ae containers and standard 5-litre Letaba bags using a mixed pine bark substrate. Within 4 months a clear difference between the Air-Pot\u00ae and bagged trees could already be seen. The Air-Pot grown trees were on average 10cm taller and the leaf span was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Macademia.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}