Claim · model-written summary
Vines with a high crop load the previous season had less flower production.
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosa
Actinidia deliciosae1 - Treatment
- high crop loade7
- Outcome
- Flower productione7
- Direction
- lesse7
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e7“Flower production was less on vines that had a high crop load the previous season”
Title
Kiwifruit: Effects of thinning on fruit size, vegetative growth, and return bloom
G. K. Burge; C. B. Spence; R. R. Marshall New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science 1987. doi:10.1080/03015521.1987.10425577
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Flower thinning increased mean kiwifruit fruit weight.
- Intervention effect Thinning reduced total yield of kiwifruit.
- Intervention effect Thinning reduced the yield of fruit in the preferred export sizes (fruit weight >90 g).
- Intervention effect Reducing fruit numbers to less than 330 per metre increased yield of fruit in the two large size grades only.
- Mechanism The reduction in flower production was primarily due to fewer flowers per flowering shoot.
- Observation Percentage bud break was not affected.
- Observation The proportion of non-flowering shoots was not affected.
- Intervention effect Thinning treatments did not significantly affect vegetative growth.
- Intervention effect Thinning treatments did not significantly affect the soluble solids content of fruit near harvest.
- Intervention effect Thinning treatments produced up to threefold differences in fruit numbers per vine.