Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest a 1.5 m strip with irrigation and fertilization for growth and yield comparable to the grower standard.
- Taxon
- Peach
Prunus persicat0 - Treatment
- 1.5 m VFSW combined with proper irrigation and fertilizatione0
- Outcome
- tree growth and yielde0
- Comparator
- current grower standarde0
- Setting
- southeastern USAe0
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Verbatim
e0“a 1.5 m VFSW combined with proper irrigation and fertilization will produce tree growth and yield in newly planted orchard with volunteer weedy vegetation similar to the current grower standard in the southeastern USA”
t0“Peach”
Title
Effects of Vegetation-Free Strip Width and Irrigation on Newly Planted Peach
Juliana K. Buckelew; Wayne E. Mitchem; David W. Monks; et al. International Journal of Fruit Science 2018. doi:10.1080/15538362.2018.1545622
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Orchard weed species differed between summer and winter.
- Observation The seasonal vegetation difference was not apparent by strip width or irrigation.
- Method / resource At Jackson Springs, predicted irrigated strip widths matching the grower standard trunk area were 1.5, 1.3 and 0.8 m for trees aged one, two and three years.
- Method / resource At Jackson Springs, a predicted irrigated strip width of 1.16 m matched grower-standard yield.
- Intervention effect At Clayton, irrigation did not alter trunk cross-sectional area or fruit yield.
- Association At Clayton, trunk area and fruit yield rose linearly with vegetation-free strip width.
- Intervention effect Irrigated trees had lower leaf nitrogen than nonirrigated trees at both locations.
- Association At Jackson Springs, leaf nitrogen, leaf area and SPAD were positively related to strip width.
- Intervention effect At Clayton, leaf nitrogen concentration did not differ by strip width.
- Association At Clayton, leaf area and SPAD were positively related to strip width.