Claim · model-written summary
Ethephon at the balloon stage reduced fruits per tree.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Material
- Spartant0
- Organ / stage
- balloon stage of floweringe0
- Treatment
- 500 mgl−1 ethephone0
- Outcome
- number of fruits carried by each treee0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“500 mgl−1 ethephon, applied at the balloon stage of flowering, and 2100 mgl−1 carbaryl, applied when the average fruitlet diameter was either 10 or 14 mm, reduced the number of fruits carried by each tree”
t0“apple cultivar Spartan”
Title
Chemical thinning of the apple cultivar Spartan
J. N. Knight; Jane E. Spencer; N. E. Looney; et al. Journal of Horticultural Science 1987. doi:10.1080/14620316.1987.11515761
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Reducing flowers increased the proportion that set fruit, with high statistical significance.
- Intervention effect Carbaryl at 10 or 14 mm fruitlet diameter reduced fruits per tree.
- Intervention effect Chemical thinning improved fruit size in Spartan apple.
- Intervention effect Chemical thinning enhanced return bloom in Spartan apple.
- Recommendation The authors suggest chemical blossom thinning as an effective strategy for Spartan trees.