Fruit thinning of the apple cultivar Cox’s Orange Pippin
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology
- Vol. 55 (3) , 267-273
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221589.1980.11514933
Abstract
Thinning by reducing the number of fruits carried by each spur led to the production of bigger fruit than either removing whole clusters from all over the tree or removing all the fruitlets from part of the tree. Ethephon applied at the balloon stage of flowering reduced the number of fruits and increased fruit size. Carbaryl was the most effective fruitlet thinner, applied when the average fruitlet diameter was between 9 and 13 mm.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Regulation of cropping and fruit quality of Conference pears by the use of gibberellic acid and thinning. I. The effect of hand thinning of blossom in conjunction with gibberellic acid applicationJournal of Horticultural Science, 1980
- Carbaryl as a Fruit Thinning AgentThe Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, 1967