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Six things OrchardHQ does, in depth.
Most orchard apps make you guess what's under the hood. These six guides spell it out — what the feature actually does, when you'd reach for it, and what it doesn't do yet. Written from a working orchard in the west of Ireland, not a product brochure.
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Plan
Draw a boundary, pick a variety mix, and watch the planner lay out a cider orchard with headlands, interplants and pollination pre-checked.
Map
A satellite map of every tree, colour-coded by fruit type. Walk the orchard, talk into your phone, watch the tree appear where you stood.
Observe
Flowering, fruit set, harvest weight, pruning, pests, height. One screen, one voice clip, the right fields filled in for you.
Tasks
A scheduled to-do list scoped to the orchard. Tree- or unit-targeted, tickable when done; follow-ups from a diagnosis become tasks automatically.
Diagnose
Photograph a sick leaf. Get a probable disease, differentials and the right follow-up tasks scheduled to the right month.
Analyse
Pollination scoring on a satellite overlay. Yield heatmaps, disease pressure by year, variety-by-variety performance.
Going deeper
From the orchard
A guide explains; a walkthrough shows. Posts from Frank's own orchard in Gort:
Walnut and stone pine with cobnut and almond interplant
Designing a polyculture: walnut and stone pine as the canopy, cobnut and almond interplanted between. What the planner does, and what it can't.
Walnut leaf, late autumn: what the diagnosis tool said
Yellowing on the walnut foliage. Photo, diagnosis, a follow-up clean-up task. Saved us a bad guess.
Planning a cider orchard for 2028
Grafting choices, variety mix, layout. Three years out — what we lock in now and what we leave open.
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