Claim · model-written summary
Pruning to reduce scaffold branch number and length increased avocado fruit yields on the remaining scaffolds
- Taxon
- Avocado
Persea americanae0 - Material
- cv. Hasse0
- Treatment
- Pruning to reduce the number and length of scaffold branchese4
- Outcome
- fruit yields on the remaining scaffoldse4
- Direction
- increasede4
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Verbatim
e0“Avocado ( Persea americana Mill. cv. Hass) trees were pruned over 3 years at either 4 or 6 m in height by removing or heading back selected limbs”
e4“Pruning to reduce the number and length of scaffold branches increased fruit yields on the remaining scaffolds without reducing fruit size”
Title
Pruning Height and Selective Limb Removal Affect Yield of Large 'Hass' Avocado Trees
T.G. Thorp; B. Stowell HortScience 2001. doi:10.21273/hortsci.36.4.699
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Pruning to reduce scaffold branch number and length did not reduce avocado fruit size
- Intervention effect Cumulative 3-year yields of avocado trees pruned to 6 m were similar to control trees
- Intervention effect Cumulative 3-year yields of avocado trees pruned to 4 m were less than control trees due to removed fruiting canopy
- Intervention effect Pruning to 4 m lowered the height of the main fruiting zone of avocado trees
- Intervention effect Yields in the 2-4-m zone of 4-m pruned avocado trees were similar to the 4-6-m zone of control trees
- Observation Avocado trees had similar crop loads before pruning