AppleBM START

1. Producing profitable apples

High yielding marketable fruits, with minimal manual thinning, determines success.

Cover production costs with a sufficient yield

Maximum marketable fruits

Minimum manualthinning to limit costs

Yield Quality and caliber Labor cost

Successful apple production depends on 3 factors :

Tree physiology directly impacts apple production and profitability.

2. Tree physiology and profitability are linked

Setting asufficient number of clusters with fruits

Caliber potentialis determined

early

Well differentiated king fruits

Yield Caliber Labor

Fruitsetquality

King fruit differentiation

Efficient thinning

3.1. Product description

3. Physio Activator Technology - Effect on apple

Composition: Active ingredient: GA 142

Mineral: 5% Nitrogen (urea); 2% Boron; 2.4% Magnesium;2.2% Sulfur; 0.02% Molybdenum

Recommendations: 3 applications at 3 pints / acre

Early flowering Full bloom Petal fall

Product name: BM START

3.1. Product description

3. Physio Activator Technology - Effect on apple

Ensure a sufficient number of clusters with fruits

Larger caliber and reduced labor costs

Improvefruitset quality

Improve differentiation and thinning

Product function:

Product function: BM START improves fruitset quality, caliber and thinning efficiency.

3.2. Technical summary

3. Physio Activator Technology - Effect on apple

The benefits of BM START have been compiled from multi-year trials (28 plots over 5 years).

3.2. Technical summary: Effect on fruitset quality

3. Physio Activator Technology - Effect on apple

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BM START reduces the number of clusters with no fruit at the end of physiological drop:

BM START enhances fruitset quality to ensure a sufficientnumber of fruits.

- 8 %

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3.2. Technical summary: Effect on king fruit differentiation

3. Physio Activator Technology - Effect on apple

BM START enhances king fruit set and differentiation.

BM START increases the percentage of clusters with only one fruit at the end of physiological drop:

3244

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+12 pts

3.2. Technical summary: Effect on thinning efficiency

3. Physio Activator Technology - Effect on apple

BM START reduces fruitset rate (number of remaining fruits per 100 clusters after chemical thinning):

7264

BM START enhances chemical thinning and reduces manual thinning.

- 11 %

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3.2. Technical summary: Effect on caliber

3. Physio Activator Technology - Effect on apple

BM START’s effect on king fruit differentiation leads to high yielding marketable fruits.

+ 5

- 7 BM STARTControl

Size (mm):

+ 10 points in70-80 mm calibers

+ 5

+ 1

- 4

3. Physio Activator Technology - Effect on apple

BM START promotes high yielding marketable apples

BM START improves thinningefficiency and limits labor costs

3.3. Key benefits

BM START:Your fruits won’t stay small for long!

3. Physio Activator Technology - Effect on apple

3.4. Additional advantages

BM START, easy-to-use, can be applied and tank mixed with most commonly usedinsecticides, fungicides and foliar nutrients

BM START, a unique product safe for growers, environment and consumers