Abstract
Two-year-old Goldet1 Queen peach trees were pruned under five pruning systems ranging froin the conventional severe pruning, to very light pruning and yields and tree size were measured until the trees were seven years old. The lighter pruned trees cropped earlier and carried more fruit. Over the full period the lightest pruned trees carried 55.5 tonnes more than the heaviest pruned trees. After five years of differential pruning, all trees were approximately the same size and they were all then pruned and thinned at the same (very light) level for a further two years. There were no residual effects on yield or growth from the earlier treatments.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Lighter pruned trees cropped earlier.
- Taxon
- peach trees
Prunus persicat0 - Treatment
- lighter prunede0
- Outcome
- cropped earliere0
- Direction
- earliere0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The lighter pruned trees cropped earlier and carried more fruit.”
t0“peach trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Lighter pruned trees carried more fruit.
- Taxon
- peach treesPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- lighter prunede0
- Outcome
- fruite0
- Direction
- moree0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The lighter pruned trees cropped earlier and carried more fruit.”
t0“peach trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Lightest pruning produced 55.5 tonnes more fruit than heaviest pruning across the full period.
- Taxon
- peach treesPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- lightest prunede0
- Outcome
- carriede0
- Direction
- moree0
- Value
- 55.5 tonnese0
- Comparator
- heaviest pruned treese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Over the full period the lightest pruned trees carried 55.5 tonnes more than the heaviest pruned trees.”
t0“peach trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Tree size was approximately equal after five years of differential pruning.
- Taxon
- peach treesPrunus persicat0
- Outcome
- same sizee0
- Direction
- approximately the samee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“After five years of differential pruning, all trees were approximately the same size”
t0“peach trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Earlier pruning treatments left no residual yield effect after common management.
- Taxon
- peach treesPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- earlier treatmentse0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- no residual effectse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“There were no residual effects on yield or growth from the earlier treatments.”
t0“peach trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Earlier pruning treatments left no residual growth effect after common management.
- Taxon
- peach treesPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- earlier treatmentse0
- Outcome
- growthe0
- Direction
- no residual effectse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“There were no residual effects on yield or growth from the earlier treatments.”
t0“peach trees”
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