Just a quick heads-up: the CT Chestnuts App is currently in private development and is not for sale. Our plan is to eventually share this preview with a select group of fellow professional growers to give them a helpful tool and gather ideas on what features we should build next. Follow us on Facebook for updates!
The Home screen is your jumping-off point for everything the app does. From here you can search the Tree Catalog to pull up any tree's file, drop into the Map to see every tree's exact location, track Seed Trees you've picked for collection, log watering by zone under Irrigation, record fertilizer applications under Nutrition, and keep a history of every graft you've tried.
Tree Catalog Search — Every tree in the orchard gets its own file. Snap a photo, jot down the variety, and you'll always know which tree is which without walking the rows trying to remember.
The best part: no matter where you're standing in the orchard, GPS shows you the tree closest to you. Snap a photo on the spot and log damage or nut development right then and there - no more trying to remember details until you get back to the house.
The map feature marks every tree in your orchard. When you're near a tree you're interested in, tap it to bring up that tree's full history, just as you recorded it.
This is where you keep tabs on the trees you've picked for seed collection. Log how many nuts you grab from each one, and the app keeps a running total for the season so you don't end up over-saving seed nuts.
Watering a section? Just pick your zone, set the duration, jot down any notes, and you're done. No more trying to remember if you already got to a zone today or yesterday, and it builds a season-over-season history so you can compare year to year. Newer trees get more frequent, lighter watering, while the established ones get deeper soaks less often, especially heading into fall when a heavier hand on the established trees means plumper nuts before drop.
Log your fertilizer applications by zone - sulfur, molybdenum, N-P-K percentages, whatever you used. You can also mark it organic or synthetic so you know exactly what went where.
Every graft gets logged here - scion variety and source, rootstock variety and source, graft type, all of it. Handy for seeing what worked and what didn't from season to season.
