Abstract
The present investigation was conducted to find out the response of half shoot pruning on vegetative growth, flowering and yield in meadow orchard of guava. The treatments consisted of seven different combinations of time of shoot pruning with unpruned control. In this way there were eight treatments replicated four times in Randomised Block Design with two plants as a treatment unit. Findings revealed that half shoot (50%) pruning significantly influenced cropping pattern of guava. Half shoot pruning in April and July have positive effect towards managing vegetative growth viz., plant height, plant spread, plant stem diameter and plant volume during both the years. Pruning in April resulted in emergence of more number of new shoots/plant, flower buds/plant, higher fruit set during winter season, almost equal number of fruits/plant and fruit weight during both rainy and winter season crop. Lowest (1.04 kg) fruit yield/plant was recorded in unpruned control in winter season. However, highest (8.79 kg.) total fruit yield/plant with inferior fruit quality was recorded with Pruning in October which remained unpruned in April and July.
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Claim · model-written summary
Half shoot pruning significantly influenced guava cropping pattern.
- Taxon
- guava
Psidium guajavae0 - Treatment
- half shoot (50%) pruninge0
- Outcome
- cropping patterne0
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Verbatim
e0“half shoot (50%) pruning significantly influenced cropping pattern of guava”
Claim · model-written summary
April half shoot pruning positively affected vegetative growth in both years.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- Half shoot pruning in Aprile0
- Outcome
- plant height, plant spread, plant stem diametere0
- Direction
- positive effecte0
- Qualifier
- both the yearse0
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Verbatim
e0“Half shoot pruning in April and July have positive effect towards managing vegetative growth viz., plant height, plant spread, plant stem diameter and plant volume during both the years”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
July half shoot pruning positively affected vegetative growth in both years.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- Julye0
- Outcome
- plant volumee0
- Direction
- positive effecte0
- Qualifier
- both the yearse0
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Verbatim
e0“Half shoot pruning in April and July have positive effect towards managing vegetative growth viz., plant height, plant spread, plant stem diameter and plant volume during both the years”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
April pruning produced more new shoots per plant.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- Pruning in Aprile0
- Outcome
- number of new shoots/plante0
- Direction
- moree0
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e0“Pruning in April resulted in emergence of more number of new shoots/plant, flower buds/plant, higher fruit set during winter season”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
April pruning produced more flower buds per plant.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- Pruning in Aprile0
- Outcome
- flower buds/plante0
- Direction
- moree0
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Verbatim
e0“Pruning in April resulted in emergence of more number of new shoots/plant, flower buds/plant, higher fruit set during winter season”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
April pruning produced higher fruit set in winter.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- Pruning in Aprile0
- Outcome
- fruit sete0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- winter seasone0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pruning in April resulted in emergence of more number of new shoots/plant, flower buds/plant, higher fruit set during winter season”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
April pruning gave nearly equal fruit number and fruit weight in rainy and winter crops.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Outcome
- number of fruits/plant and fruit weighte0
- Direction
- almost equale0
- Qualifier
- rainy and winter season crope0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“almost equal number of fruits/plant and fruit weight during both rainy and winter season crop”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Unpruned control had the lowest winter fruit yield per plant, 1.04 kg.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- unpruned controle0
- Outcome
- fruit yield/plante0
- Direction
- Loweste0
- Value
- 1.04 kge0
- Qualifier
- winter seasone0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Lowest (1.04 kg) fruit yield/plant was recorded in unpruned control in winter season”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
October pruning without April or July pruning gave the highest total fruit yield per plant, 8.79 kg.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- Pruning in Octobere0
- Outcome
- total fruit yield/plante0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- 8.79 kg.e0
- Qualifier
- remained unpruned in April and Julye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“highest (8.79 kg.) total fruit yield/plant with inferior fruit quality was recorded with Pruning in October which remained unpruned in April and July”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
October pruning without April or July pruning gave inferior fruit quality.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- Pruning in Octobere0
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye0
- Direction
- inferiore0
- Qualifier
- remained unpruned in April and Julye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“highest (8.79 kg.) total fruit yield/plant with inferior fruit quality was recorded with Pruning in October which remained unpruned in April and July”
t0“guava”
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