Abstract
We investigated the shoot growth and fruit production of ‘Masui Dauphine’ fig trees (Ficus carica L.) with a newly devised “renewal long pruning” method and compared the results with those of conventional short pruning under straight-line training with both normal and high limb styles. This novel pruning method combines long pruning and continuous renewal pruning such that a few dormant shoots remain long and serve both as long mother shoots and as replaceable limbs. In experiments in 2009 and 2010, the shoots sprouted earlier from the renewal long pruning trees than from the short pruning trees. The number of lateral shoots was less in the renewal long pruning trees, indicating the prevention of excess vigour in bearing shoots. Renewal long pruning did not affect total percentage of fruit set; however, it slightly increased fruit set failure in the basal portion of bearing shoots. It potentially induced early maturation and greater enlargement of the fruit. Renewal long pruning was especially useful in high-limb straight-line training because it effectively compensated for disadvantage of this training, such as increasing numbers of lateral shoots and inhibition of fruit enlargement.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Renewal long pruning advanced fig shoot sprouting relative to short pruning.
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e0“the shoots sprouted earlier from the renewal long pruning trees than from the short pruning trees.”
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Renewal long pruning reduced the number of lateral shoots.
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e0“The number of lateral shoots was less in the renewal long pruning trees, indicating the prevention of excess vigour in bearing shoots.”
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Renewal long pruning did not affect total fruit set percentage.
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- figt0
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- Renewal long pruninge0
- Outcome
- total percentage of fruit sete0
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- did not affecte0
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e0“Renewal long pruning did not affect total percentage of fruit set; however, it slightly increased fruit set failure in the basal portion of bearing shoots.”
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Renewal long pruning slightly increased basal fruit set failure.
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- figt0
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- basal portion of bearing shootse0
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- fruit set failuree0
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- increasede0
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e0“it slightly increased fruit set failure in the basal portion of bearing shoots.”
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Renewal long pruning potentially induced earlier fig fruit maturation.
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e0“It potentially induced early maturation and greater enlargement of the fruit.”
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Renewal long pruning potentially increased fruit enlargement.
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e0“It potentially induced early maturation and greater enlargement of the fruit.”
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Renewal long pruning was especially useful with high-limb straight-line training, compensating for more lateral shoots and inhibited fruit enlargement.
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e0“Renewal long pruning was especially useful in high-limb straight-line training because it effectively compensated for disadvantage of this training, such as increasing numbers of lateral shoots and inhibition of fruit enlargement.”
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