Nursery establishment & management

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 MacAvo Consulting specialise in:

• providing advice to large and small-scale macadamia and avocado nurseries in all major growing regions of Australia and Asia, and 
• establishing and managing large-scale macadamia nurseries (>200,000 trees).

MacAvo’s Chris Searle is an accredited nursery assessor (Nursery Industry Accreditation Scheme) with an extensive background in tree crop research (CSIRO, DAFQ and UQ), so he understands the science behind your young trees.

Chris is passionate about providing nursery operators with the information and techniques to produce the highest quality plants possible using industry best practice guidelines. He works closely with his clients on all aspects of the process - from site construction, through to variety selection, growing media, planting, grafting, nutrition and pest & disease management. 

He has a comprehensive understanding of the new Australian macadamia industry nursery accreditation and tree standard (having guided its development), and regularly presents at workshops and national conferences on the topic. 

Chris can help you with advice and information on all aspects of nursery production including:

- Nursery standards

- Site preparation, nursery design and construction

- Nursery stock and varietal selection

- Young tree preparation & management

- Premium potting medium selection & management 

- Supply of seed nut and scion wood

- Growing seedlings

- Propagation techniques

- Integrated pest & disease management

- Irrigation & nutrition management

- Grafting and micro grafting

- Training workshops for new nursery operators.