Fruit Diameter Articles & Analysis
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Utilizing best practices for irrigation and vegetation management in the orchard helps growers to optimize tree growth, fruit yield, and fruit size. Scientists at North Carolina State University published a study in the May 2015 issue of HortScience that includes guidelines that can help increase tree vigor and fruit yield, and limit damage from ...
Stefano Musacchi, Federico Gagliardi, and Sara Serra released a study in HortScience in which they report on the vegetative growth and fruit production behavior of different sweet cherry cultivars grown using multiple new ultra-high-density planting (HDP) and training systems. "The current trend toward higher densities in pome and stone fruit orchards, including ...
"Despite their different soil water-holding capacities, non-irrigated trees produced similar fruit numbers over a 3-year period," Warmund and Sambeek wrote. "However, we found that mean fruit numbers varied by location and year, indicating that other factors influenced fruit yields." The researchers concluded that stenospermocarpy--the ...