Abstract
The study investigates the effects of pruning time on sweet cherry trees (Prunus avium L.) of Stella and Skeena varieties, grafted on MaxMa 14 rootstock, planted at a spacing distance of 5 x 3 m in the central region of the Republic of Moldova in 2012. Trees with naturally improved crowns of reduced volume were used. Four pruning schedules were tested: dormant period pruning (control group), pruning during flowering, post-harvest pruning (in July), and early autumn pruning (first decade of September). Phenological characteristics of sweet cherry varieties, trunk diameter increment, crop yield, and fruit distribution by diameter were assessed. Pruning time had no significant effect on the onset and duration of flowering or trunk growth, but significantly influenced fruit quality and yield. Early autumn pruning reduced the number of small fruits and increased the yield of fruits larger than 28 mm in diameter. Further research during the growing season should focus on evaluating the impact of pruning time on yield, fruit diameter, fruit mass, and fruit distribution by commercial size.
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Pruning time did not significantly affect flowering onset or duration.
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- sweet cherries
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- onset and duration of floweringe0
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- no significant effecte0
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e0“Pruning time had no significant effect on the onset and duration of flowering or trunk growth”
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Pruning time did not significantly affect trunk growth.
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- sweet cherriesPrunus aviumt0
- Treatment
- Pruning timee0
- Outcome
- trunk growthe0
- Direction
- no significant effecte0
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e0“Pruning time had no significant effect on the onset and duration of flowering or trunk growth”
t0“sweet cherries”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning time significantly affected fruit quality.
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- sweet cherriesPrunus aviumt0
- Treatment
- Pruning timee2
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye0
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e0“significantly influenced fruit quality and yield”
t0“sweet cherries”
e2“Pruning time”
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Pruning time significantly affected yield.
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- sweet cherriesPrunus aviumt0
- Treatment
- Pruning timee2
- Outcome
- yielde0
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e0“significantly influenced fruit quality and yield”
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e2“Pruning time”
Claim · model-written summary
Early autumn pruning reduced small-fruit counts.
- Taxon
- sweet cherriesPrunus aviumt0
- Treatment
- Early autumn pruninge0
- Outcome
- number of small fruitse0
- Direction
- reducede0
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e0“Early autumn pruning reduced the number of small fruits and increased the yield of fruits larger than 28 mm in diameter.”
t0“sweet cherries”
Claim · model-written summary
Early autumn pruning increased yield of fruit larger than 28 mm.
- Taxon
- sweet cherriesPrunus aviumt0
- Treatment
- Early autumn pruninge0
- Outcome
- yield of fruits larger than 28 mm in diametere0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Early autumn pruning reduced the number of small fruits and increased the yield of fruits larger than 28 mm in diameter.”
t0“sweet cherries”
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