OZSTAR has the best roasters of various capacities to give you the perfectly roasted peanuts! We also provide additional equipment for flavouring and seasoning the nuts. OZSTAR also provides additional flavoring and seasoning equipment for nuts We manufacture different capacity to suit demand. This stainless steel is of high quality and can be controlled from the touch screen control panel. For established orchards, leaf tissue analysis standards are available (see Table 5). Soil test results (see Table 6) should be interpreted with advice from your district horticulturist. Pruning Compared to other deciduous fruit trees, hazelnuts require a minimal amount of pruning but sucker control can be time-consuming. Nursery trees should be root-pruned at planting to reduce suckering and basal buds removed. Trees should then be headed to 0.8 m. Pruning in the next 2-5 years is used to produce a modified leader tree with 3- 5 main branches. Pruning in the following years is not required until vigour declines. Hazelnuts generally crop on 1 y.o. shoots, and in the USA in established orchards, 15-20% of the orchard may be pruned on a 5-6 year rotation plan. Large pruning cuts should be avoided to prevent infections from wood rots. Pruning should take place after the pollen has shed and the catkins have fallen (late winter to early spring). Pruning should be done carefully as it is one of the factors in triggering an alternate bearing pattern. With mature trees insufficient pruning can reduce shoot vigour and diminish cropping potential. Excessive shading will reduce flower bud formation, fruit set, yield and nut size. Hazelnuts do not reproduce true to type from seed. To date, the main method of propagation is by stool beds to produce trees on their own roots. Suckers are girdled and can be treated with a rooting hormone to encourage root initiation. Trees are generally sold as bare rooted, single whips up to 1 m tall. Inhibited callus formation has prevented grafting in the past but the use of the hot callusing tube has increased grafting success up to 90%. The use of leafy cuttings with bottom heat in a coarse rooting medium and indole butyric acid hormone treatment has had limited success, while tissue culture looks promising. The Turkish tree hazel (Corylus colurna) has particular value as a non-suckering rootstock. Its deep taproot results in increased drought tolerance in the drier Australian summers. However, seeds of this species are difficult to germinate and, because of the taproot, seedlings are difficult to transplant. OZSTAR has the best roasters of various capacities to give you the perfectly roasted peanuts! We also provide additional equipment for flavouring and seasoning the nuts. OZSTAR also provides additional flavoring and seasoning equipment for nuts We manufacture different capacity to suit demand. This stainless steel is of high quality and can be controlled from the touch screen control panel.