Blossom Thinner

Since the Blossom Thinner is a tall instrument, even minor slippage on uneven or slippery terrain can significantly impact its positioning and effectiveness. To ensure that the rotating brush wires remain at the correct height, the Slopehelper Blossom Thinner is equipped with an automatic vertical positioning system.

This system continuously adjusts the instrument’s height, compensating for terrain variations to maintain precise contact with the flowers. By stabilizing vertical alignment, it ensures consistent thinning accuracy, preventing over-thinning or ineffective operation, and maximizing fruit yield potential in all orchard conditions.

In real-world orchards, plantation rows are rarely perfectly straight, meaning the Blossom Thinner must continuously adapt its position relative to the row for accurate thinning.

The Slopehelper Blossom Thinner is equipped with a special actuator system that automatically adjusts the instrument’s lateral position, ensuring optimal alignment with the trees. This dynamic adjustment prevents flower damage from incorrect positioning and guarantees precise, uniform thinning, regardless of row irregularities.

Maintaining the correct number of wire/string impacts per canopy surface is critical for effective blossom thinning. If the rotation speed is too high, it may damage flowers, while if it’s too low, the thinning effect will be insufficient.

As a fully robotic instrument, the Slopehelper Blossom Thinnerer automatically regulates the rotation speed of the string drum, ensuring a precise and consistent number of impacts per canopy surface. This advanced automation eliminates the need for manual adjustments, guaranteeing optimal thinning efficiency, uniform flower removal, and maximized fruit yield without the risk of over-thinning or damage.

Conventional blossom thinners typically use either thick silicone rods or polymer fingers to improve thinning efficiency. However, these solutions come with trade-offs:

• Thicker strings may be less precise, leading to over-thinning and reduced fruit set.
• Thin strings provide better thinning precision but often damage future fruit stems and branches, negatively impacting fruit development.

The Slopehelper Blossom Thinnerer introduces an innovative bent-tip design for its polymer wires/strings, combining the efficiency of thin-string thinning with damage prevention.

The bent tips provide gentle yet effective thinning, ensuring that excess blossoms are removed while future fruit stems remain undamaged.

Unlike thicker rods or polymer fingers, the contact surface remains small, allowing for precise thinning without completely stripping the fruiting zones.

This optimized thinning method ensures higher-quality thinning, better fruit distribution, and improved harvest potential, making the Slopehelper Blossom Thinnerer a superior solution for orchard management.

To achieve optimal blossom thinning efficiency, the Slopehelper Blossom Thinnerer features a special string amortization system, which improves both performance and operational speed.

Unlike conventional static strings, amortized wires can absorb impact forces, allowing for gentler and more controlled contact with the canopy. This results in:

• Smoother thinning action, reducing stress on fruit-bearing stems.
• Increased operational speed without the risk of excessive flower loss or damage.
• More consistent thinning, as the flexible movement of the strings adapts dynamically to canopy variations.

This advanced amortization system ensures efficient and uniform thinning, maintaining high fruit yield potential while allowing for fast, damage-free operation.