You heard right... free stuff! No hooks, no catches. Truly free software and information to help make your business more prosperous.
This software and information is provided free as a service to the horticultural industry. No warranties are expressed or implied. No liability is assumed by us or the developers. Use totally at your own risk.
We provide support for these free products, so please do ask if you have questions. As always, email is the best medium for support. If you would prefer to get this software on a disk, contact us.
Click links below for information and to obtain:
| Spray Log | Looking for free software to manage your spray diary? Look no further! |
| Spray Plan Manager | Most Regional Councils now require you to produce a Property Spray Plan. Check out this free online tool which helps you to produce your Property Spray Plan with minimal hassle. Be sure to check the link to the video tutorial to get an overview. |
| Winter chilling around
New Zealand
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A summary of winter chilling around New Zealand. Vital information for good orchard and vineyard management. Note to MetWatch users, you can do this for your local weather station information yourself! |
| Stress Relief | Pure fun: A great quiz, a fun video, a terrific answer phone message, and a real screen killer! |
| Graph Master | Manage and analyse time-based monitoring information from fruit size and brix levels in the orchard to fruit firmness in coolstore. |
| Weather Sense Column | Check out HortPlus' Weather Sense column which appears monthly in New Zealand's premier magazine The Orchardist. |
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Codling
Moth Decision Support Tool |
Interpret weather data for critical information on codling moth spray applications. Collaborative effort between HortPlus, HortResearch, and Pipfruit New Zealand. |
| Growing
Degree Days around New Zealand
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A summary of Growing Degree Day (GDD) accumulations around New Zealand. Vital information for good orchard and vineyard management. Note to MetWatch users, you can do this for your local weather station information yourself! |
| Spray Calculator | Calculate work rates and application costs of your spray programme using this Excel spreadsheet. |
| Weather information on the web | Links to various free weather resources available to you on the web. |
| Dr Matthew Laurenson talk | Notes from talk by Dr Matthew Laurenson presented to Hawkes Bay chapter of the Royal Society. |
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Adobobe Acrobat is a file format used to display documents on any computer. If you need a copy of the free Acrobat reader, click on the "Get Acrobat Reader" to the left. |
We also have some Free Stuff that is only of use to users of specific HortPlus products. These are listed below:
| Historical MetWatch weather files | Historical weather data files for MetWatch users. (Sorry, these files are only of use to MetWatch users) |
| Logger to MetWatch conversion utilities | Use these utilities to convert data files downloaded from a data logger so they can be imported to a MetWatch file. This includes the HortPlus Quick Measure Temperature Loggers, Tiny Tags downloaded with Tiny Tag Explorer, and Escort loggers. |
| Countdown timer | For use with . When missioning a number of Quick Measure Temperature Loggers that you want to have all start logging at the same time you need to know the time until start of mission. This spreadsheet gives you a countdown to make it easy. |
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