Abstract
In greenhouse crops, fruit yield and quality can be increased by managing shoot pruning and plant density. The effect of plant population density (2, 3, and 4 plants/m 2 as function of in-row plant spacings of 66.5, 44.3, and 33.3 cm, respectively), and shoot pruning (one, two, and four main stems) was studied for effects on fruit yield, quality and plant growth of greenhouse-grown sweet pepper ( Capsicum annuum L. cv. Robusta) during Summer 1998 in Gainesville, Fla. Red fruit were harvested 84 and 118 days after transplanting (14 Apr.). Additional fruit set was inhibited due to the high temperatures. Marketable yield (number and weight) per square meter increased linearly with plant density and was greater on plants with four stems than in those with two or one stem. Extra-large fruit yield per square meter was not affected by plant density, but was higher in four-stem plants. Total marketable yield and extra-large fruit yields per plant were greatest in the four-stem plants at two plants per square meter. The stem length and the number of nodes per stem increased linearly with the decrease in plant spacing. Stem length and number of nodes per stem were greater in single-stem than in four-stem plants. Number and dry weight of leaves, stem diameter, and total plant dry weight were higher in four- and two-stem plants than in single-stem plants. Results indicated that four plants per square meter pruned to four stems increased marketable and extra-large fruit yield in a short harvest period of a summer greenhouse sweet pepper crop in north central Florida.
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Claims 10
Claim · model-written summary
Marketable yield per square meter increased linearly with density.
- Taxon
- sweet pepper
Capsicum annuumt0 - Treatment
- plant densitye0
- Outcome
- Marketable yield (number and weight) per square metere0
- Direction
- increased linearlye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Marketable yield (number and weight) per square meter increased linearly with plant density”
t0“sweet pepper”
Claim · model-written summary
Four-stem plants had greater marketable yield than one- or two-stem plants.
- Taxon
- sweet pepperCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- four stemse0
- Outcome
- greatere0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Comparator
- two or one steme0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“was greater on plants with four stems than in those with two or one stem”
t0“sweet pepper”
Claim · model-written summary
Density did not affect extra-large fruit yield per square meter.
- Taxon
- sweet pepperCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- plant densitye0
- Outcome
- Extra-large fruit yield per square metere0
- Direction
- not affectede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Extra-large fruit yield per square meter was not affected by plant density”
t0“sweet pepper”
Claim · model-written summary
Four stems gave higher extra-large fruit yield per square meter.
- Taxon
- sweet pepperCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- four-stem plantse0
- Outcome
- highere0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“but was higher in four-stem plants”
t0“sweet pepper”
Claim · model-written summary
Four-stem plants at two plants per square meter had greatest per-plant marketable and extra-large yield.
- Taxon
- sweet pepperCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- four-stem plants at two plants per square metere0
- Outcome
- Total marketable yield and extra-large fruit yields per plante0
- Direction
- greateste0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Total marketable yield and extra-large fruit yields per plant were greatest in the four-stem plants at two plants per square meter”
t0“sweet pepper”
Claim · model-written summary
Stem length and nodes increased as spacing decreased.
- Taxon
- sweet pepperCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- plant spacinge0
- Outcome
- stem length and the number of nodes per steme0
- Direction
- increased linearlye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The stem length and the number of nodes per stem increased linearly with the decrease in plant spacing”
t0“sweet pepper”
Claim · model-written summary
Single-stem plants had greater stem length and node number than four-stem plants.
- Taxon
- sweet pepperCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- single-steme0
- Outcome
- Stem length and number of nodes per steme0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Comparator
- four-stem plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Stem length and number of nodes per stem were greater in single-stem than in four-stem plants”
t0“sweet pepper”
Claim · model-written summary
Two- and four-stem plants had more and heavier leaves, wider stems, and more dry mass than single-stem plants.
- Taxon
- sweet pepperCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- four- and two-stem plantse0
- Outcome
- Number and dry weight of leaves, stem diameter, and total plant dry weighte0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- single-stem plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Number and dry weight of leaves, stem diameter, and total plant dry weight were higher in four- and two-stem plants than in single-stem plants”
t0“sweet pepper”
Claim · model-written summary
Four plants per square meter pruned to four stems increased marketable and extra-large fruit yield.
- Taxon
- sweet pepperCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- four plants per square meter pruned to four stemse0
- Outcome
- marketable and extra-large fruit yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“four plants per square meter pruned to four stems increased marketable and extra-large fruit yield”
t0“sweet pepper”
Claim · model-written summary
High temperatures inhibited additional fruit set.
- Taxon
- sweet pepperCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- high temperaturese0
- Outcome
- Additional fruit sete0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Additional fruit set was inhibited due to the high temperatures”
t0“sweet pepper”
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