What we do
Advice across the whole season
Independent recommendations. We don't sell products, so the advice is about your orchards and your markets.
Nutrition programmes
Fertiliser and foliar programmes per block, built on leaf and soil analyses, tree age, cultivar and crop load.
Crop protection
Pest, disease and black spot (CBS) spray programmes with registered products, resistance groups rotated and label rates respected.
Export compliance
Every programme checked against CGA/CRI usage restrictions, market MRLs and retailer red lists, so fruit isn't held back at the packhouse.
Crop estimates & planning
Block-level crop estimates, fruit sizing and seasonal budgets that farm managers can work from.
Our year in the orchard
A typical Sundays River Valley citrus season, July to June. Timing shifts with cultivar, block and year.
About
Grown in Kirkwood
SymGrow was founded by Cobus Symington, a farmer and agronomist who has run commercial citrus production in the Kirkwood area since 2017. He knows the valley's orchards, its packhouses and what export markets ask of growers.
That experience shapes how we work: clear programmes, honest advice and records that stand up to an audit.
- Company
- SymGrow (Pty) Ltd
- Founder
- Cobus Symington
- Role
- Farmer / Agronomist
- Qualification
- B Agric, Horticultural Plant Science
- Training
- Basic Crop Protection (AVCASA)
- Focus
- Export citrus: lemons, navels, Valencias, mandarins
- Based
- Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
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