Hat-trick year for the founder of FLASH GALA ™ who now has two new Fuji strains too.
For most in the fruit growing community the discovery of just one commercially viable strain is a dream. It might be globally unheard of for one man to discover three new strains - each awarded Plant Breeder’s Rights (PBR) -
Tru-Cape’s New Variety Expert, Buks Nel awarded by fruit industry
The South African deciduous fruit industry presented its awards for outstanding performance in agriculture at the 43rd annual gala evening on 14 September 2018. Deciduous fruit includes apples, pears, apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums and prunes, cherries, table grapes and dried
The apples didn’t fall far from this tree.
The apple doesn’t fall very far from this tree! For Tru-Cape’s New Variety Specialist and the man who discovered the FLASH GALA ™ apple Buks Nel, family along with apples and pears are his great loves. This photo, of Buks
FLASH GALA ™ set to disrupt the fruit industry.
With over a quarter of a million trees already purchased, Bigbucks, the improved Corder Gala apple strain, is now the most successful new variety in terms of orders placed in the history of the South African Plant Improvement Organisation since
