Claim · model-written summary
Pruning to 75% of tree height gave poor diameter growth in black cherry.
- Taxon
- Black cherry
Prunus serotinae0 - Treatment
- Pruning to 75 percent of tree heighte3
- Outcome
- diameter growthe3
- Direction
- poore3
- Comparator
- left unprunede0
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Verbatim
e0“Black cherry trees 4 to 6 inches in diameter at breast height (dbh) with live crown ratios ranging from 73 to 92 percent were pruned to 25, 50, or 75 percent of tree height or were left unpruned”
e3“Pruning to 75 percent of tree height caused excessive epicormic branching, poor diameter growth, and serious cambium necrosis”
Title
Pruning Black Cherry in Understocked Stands
Ted J. Grisez 1978
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Pruning to 75% of tree height caused excessive epicormic branching in black cherry.
- Intervention effect Pruning to 75% of tree height caused serious cambium necrosis in black cherry.
- Recommendation Most black cherry trees can be pruned to 50% of tree height in one operation.
- Recommendation Black cherry trees with large, frilly crowns exposed on the southwest side should be pruned less severely.