Claim · model-written summary
Cumulative 3-year yields of avocado trees pruned to 4 m were less than control trees due to removed fruiting canopy
- Taxon
- Avocado
Persea americanae0 - Material
- cv. Hasse0
- Treatment
- 4-m treese2
- Outcome
- Cumulative yields over 3 yearse2
- Direction
- lesse2
- Qualifier
- due to the large volume of fruiting canopy removed in the first pruninge2
- Comparator
- control treese2
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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”
e2“Cumulative yields over 3 years were similar on 6-m and control trees, but were less on 4-m trees due to the large volume of fruiting canopy removed in the first pruning”
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 increased avocado fruit yields on the remaining scaffolds
- 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 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