Claim · model-written summary
Wider spacing reduced fruit number and fruit weight per tree.
- Taxon
- figt0
- Treatment
- 5x4 me0
- Outcome
- fruit number and fruit weight per treee0
- Direction
- declinede0
- Comparator
- 5x2.5 me0
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Verbatim
t0“fig (Ficus carica L.)”
e0“With increase in in-row tree spacing from 5x2.5 m to 5x4 m, the vegetative growth parameters like leaf number, shoot length, internodal length, tree spread, tree height and tree circumference and the fruit yield both in terms of fruit number and fruit weight per tree declined”
Title
Ravindra Kumar; R Chithiraichelvan; S Ganesh; et al. Journal of Applied Horticulture 2015. doi:10.37855/jah.2015.v17i01.11
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation Fig responded more to spacing than pruning for morphophysiological characters and yield.
- Intervention effect Wider spacing reduced leaf number, shoot length and internodal length.
- Intervention effect Wider spacing reduced tree spread, height and circumference.
- Intervention effect Closer spacing maintained higher photosynthesis rate and leaf water potential.
- Intervention effect Pruning from eight to four buds per cane reduced tree height.
- Observation Pruning influenced yield characters only marginally.
- Observation Spacing and pruning had no significant interaction.
- Intervention effect Fruit size and TSS were highest at 5x2.5 m spacing.
- Observation Acidity showed no marked spacing difference.
- Observation At 5x2.5 m with eight buds per cane, third-year fruit number per tree ranged from 84.3 to 253.0.
- Observation At 5x2.5 m with eight buds per cane, fourth-year fruit number per tree ranged from 232.3 to 321.5.
- Observation At 5x2.5 m with eight buds per cane, third-year fruit weight per tree ranged from 2.69 to 8.61 kg.
- Observation At 5x2.5 m with eight buds per cane, fourth-year fruit weight per tree ranged from 7.43 to 9.44 kg.
- Observation Yield per hectare was high under 5x2.5 m spacing with eight buds per cane.
- Observation Yield per hectare was high under 5x2.0 m spacing with eight buds per cane.
- Recommendation The authors recommend 5x2.5 m spacing with eight buds per cane for higher growth and yield in young fig trees.