Claim · model-written summary
ATS spray at bloom reduced hand-thinning time.
- Taxon
- apricot
Prunus armeniacat0 - Treatment
- ammonium thiosulphate (ATS) fertilizere0
- Outcome
- hand-thinning timee0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“A single spray of ammonium thiosulphate (ATS) fertilizer applied when the spur flowers are approaching full bloom and lateral flowers are at about 50% of full bloom effectively reduced hand-thinning time”
t0“apricot”
Title
BLOSSOM THINNING OF `WENATCHEE' AND `TILTON' APRICOTS WITH AMMONIUM THIOSULPHATE
Norman E. Looney; Michael A. Beulah HortScience 1993. doi:10.21273/hortsci.28.5.484e
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect ATS spray at bloom improved apricot fruit size.
- Intervention effect Gun-spray 0.4% ATS reduced thinning time by at least one-third.
- Intervention effect Gun-spray 0.5% ATS reduced thinning time by at least one-third.
- Intervention effect Gun-spray 0.4% ATS increased fruit size about 20%.
- Intervention effect Gun-spray 0.5% ATS increased fruit size about 20%.
- Intervention effect 0.4% ATS did not reduce branch or tree yields versus normally hand-thinned controls.
- Intervention effect 0.5% ATS did not reduce branch or tree yields versus normally hand-thinned controls.
- Observation Airblast sprays were effective, with wetting critical to success.
- Observation In mature plantations, 1500 to 1800 L/ha of 3% ATS gave satisfactory results.