Effect of Trickle Irrigation on Peach Trees1
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- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Horticultural Science in HortScience
- Vol. 14 (1) , 36-37
- https://doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.14.1.36
Abstract
Peach trees (Prunus persica (L.) Batsch cv. Redglobe) were trickle-irrigated at 3 rates using open pan evaporation as a basis for calculating theoretical irrigation needs from 1973-1976 beginning when trees were 6-years-old. Although above average rainfall was received about 65% of the time, trickle irrigation (1½ times theoretical needs) increased yield per tree, fruit size, number of fruit buds per tree, and trunk diameter over non-irrigated trees. Trickle irrigation at 1½ the calculated rate increased average yield per tree, fruit size, and trunk diameters over trees sprinkle-irrigated once before harvest.Keywords
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