Abstract
Avocado yields are low when compared to other fruit tree crops, and the Hass cultivar, specifically, possesses an inherent tendency to produce a high percentage of small fruit. The application of thick composted pine bark mulch was investigated as a strategy to increase yield and to alleviate the small fruit problem in this cultivar. Mulched trees showed more prolonged and extensive root growth throughout the duration of the trial. Over three seasons, mulching elevated average fruit yields by 22,6%, and increased mean fruit mass by 6,6%.The number of fruit that were considered highly suitable, and acceptable for export, were increased by 45% and 20% respectively. Initial costs of the pine bark were off-set within two seasons, thus providing growers with a practical means of boosting financial returns, especially since pine bark is considered to have a half life of approximately five years.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching increased average fruit yield of Hass avocado by 22,6% over three seasons.
- Taxon
- Avocado
Persea americanat0 - Material
- Hasst0
- Treatment
- mulchinge1
- Outcome
- average fruit yieldse1
- Direction
- elevatede1
- Value
- 22,6%e1
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Verbatim
t0“Mulching of Avocado Orchards to Increase Hass Yield”
e1“Over three seasons, mulching elevated average fruit yields by 22,6%, and increased mean fruit mass by 6,6%”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching increased mean fruit mass of Hass avocado by 6,6%.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Material
- Hasst0
- Treatment
- mulchinge1
- Outcome
- mean fruit masse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 6,6%e1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Mulching of Avocado Orchards to Increase Hass Yield”
e1“Over three seasons, mulching elevated average fruit yields by 22,6%, and increased mean fruit mass by 6,6%”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching increased the number of Hass avocado fruit considered highly suitable by 45%.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Material
- Hasst0
- Treatment
- mulchinge1
- Outcome
- number of fruit that were considered highly suitablee2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Value
- 45%e2
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Mulching of Avocado Orchards to Increase Hass Yield”
e1“Over three seasons, mulching elevated average fruit yields by 22,6%, and increased mean fruit mass by 6,6%”
e2“The number of fruit that were considered highly suitable, and acceptable for export, were increased by 45% and 20% respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching increased the number of Hass avocado fruit acceptable for export by 20%.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Material
- Hasst0
- Treatment
- mulchinge1
- Outcome
- acceptable for exporte2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Value
- 20%e2
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Mulching of Avocado Orchards to Increase Hass Yield”
e1“Over three seasons, mulching elevated average fruit yields by 22,6%, and increased mean fruit mass by 6,6%”
e2“The number of fruit that were considered highly suitable, and acceptable for export, were increased by 45% and 20% respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulched Hass avocado trees showed more extensive root growth over the trial.
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t0“Mulching of Avocado Orchards to Increase Hass Yield”
e3“Mulched trees showed more prolonged and extensive root growth throughout the duration of the trial”
Claim · model-written summary
Initial costs of pine bark mulching were offset within two seasons.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Material
- Hasst0
- Treatment
- pine barke4
- Outcome
- Initial costs of the pine barke4
- Direction
- off-sete4
- Value
- within two seasonse4
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Verbatim
t0“Mulching of Avocado Orchards to Increase Hass Yield”
e4“Initial costs of the pine bark were off-set within two seasons, thus providing growers with a practical means of boosting financial returns”
Claim · model-written summary
Pine bark mulching gives growers a practical means of boosting financial returns in avocado orchards.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Outcome
- providing growers with a practical means of boosting financial returnse4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Mulching of Avocado Orchards to Increase Hass Yield”
e4“Initial costs of the pine bark were off-set within two seasons, thus providing growers with a practical means of boosting financial returns”
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