Horticultural operations are increasingly using recirculating subirrigation systems and runoff water collected in catchment basins to supplement decreasingly available potable water sources for irrigation ( Obreza et al., 2010 ). Irrigation water
catch wires. Vines were spur-pruned during winter; i.e., canes (a mature woody and lignified stem from the previous season’s shoot) were cut back to two count nodes/buds (the readily visible buds on a dormant cane, not including the small base buds); the
16-ft between-row and 4-ft in-row spacing, and were trained to a three-wire trellis system with the lowest wire 2 ft above the soil surface to accommodate the mechanical harvester’s catch plate. Harvest method (hand and machine) was randomized with
’s catch plates then are conveyed into bins. A shake-and-catch harvester is a combination of two self-propelled units—a trunk shaker and a matching catch frame. An example of this harvester ( Brar, 2020 ) is shown in Fig. 1 . The trunk shaker clamps to the
canes, other fruits, and interior surfaces of the harvester or catch plates while falling through the bush after detachment ( Takeda et al., 2008 ), and as fruit moves from the catch plates to the lugs ( Yu et al., 2012 ). Harvest losses may occur due to
catch plates (also called fish scales) at the base of the machine. These losses often have reached 20% to 30% with machine harvesting ( Mainland, 1993 ; Strik and Buller, 2002 ; van Dalfsen and Gaye, 1999 ). Excessive green and red fruit detachment
base-pruned to remove small-diameter twigs and canes that would potentially interfere with the catch plates on the harvester. In the center of each plot, four uniform plants were marked for subsequent yield measurements after MH. Four plants at the
.2-cm wide filter sock-covered, slotted corrugated pipe (effluent catchment pipe) was placed horizontally at the bottom to capture and transfer water that filtered through the substrate and reached the bottom of each rain garden (effluent) out of the
spiked-drum shakers that rotate freely and cause fruit to drop ( Funt et al., 1998 ). Fruit fall onto a catch plate, roll into cups, and are conveyed vertically to a cleaning and sorting belt at the top of the harvester. Sorted fruit are collected in
Figure 3C , tart cherries, labeled cerosa acetosa , are being harvested by a child who has climbed into the tree. A well-dressed lady opens her gown to catch fallen fruits and another elegant lady carries off two full baskets balanced on a pole. The very