Biennial Patterns in Apple Tree Growth and Cropping as Related to Irrigation and Thinning
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology
- Vol. 56 (2) , 161-168
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221589.1981.11514982
Abstract
Irrigation intensified biennial bearing but crop weight in proportion to tree size was not increased. Irrigation increased shoot growth and trunk expansion. Seasons of maximum shoot growth and trunk expansion were correlated with light crops. Allowing trees to produce their first crop in an ‘off year’ or drastic chemical thinning in the ‘on year’ both eventually led to uniform cropping.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Nitrogen and Water Effects on the Nutrition, Growth, Crop Yield and Fruit Quality of Orchard-Grown Cox’s Orange Pippin Apple TreesThe Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, 1978
- Irrigation of apple trees in NelsonNew Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 1976