Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning did not affect flesh firmness.
- Taxon
- Apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- Flesh firmnesse0
- Direction
- unaffectede0
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Verbatim
e0“Flesh firmness was unaffected by summer pruning.”
t0“Apple”
Title
The Influence of Summer Pruning and Cropping on Growth and Fruiting of Apple
B. H. Taylor; D. C. Ferree Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1984. doi:10.21273/jashs.109.1.19
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Summer pruning reduced final shoot regrowth by 82% in 1979.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning reduced final shoot regrowth by 76% in 1980.
- Intervention effect Shoots in the year after summer pruning were 55% longer in 1979.
- Intervention effect Shoots in the year after summer pruning were 62% longer in 1980.
- Intervention effect Full-crop summer-pruned trees had 13% shorter terminal shoots than defruited trees in 1979.
- Intervention effect Cropping did not affect terminal shoot length in 1980.
- Intervention effect Full-crop trees had a smaller annual trunk cross-section increase than defruited trees.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning did not affect annual trunk cross-section increase.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning reduced canopy volume by 43% in 1979 and 1980.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning increased canopy openness to light penetration.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning hastened flower opening.
- Intervention effect Pruning treatment did not affect fruit set.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning reduced fruit yield per tree.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning did not affect yield per canopy volume.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning decreased fruit size in 1979.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning increased fruit size in 1980.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning reduced fruit soluble solids in 1979 and 1980.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning increased fruit color in 1978 and 1980.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning did not increase fruit color in 1979.