Abstract
Pruning is one of the techniques to improve plant growth and production. The aim of this research was to determine the effect of pruning on vegetative and generative growth, and fruit quality of ‘Crystal’ guava. The experiment was conducted from September 2016 to April 2017 at Cikabayan Research Station of Bogor Agricultural University, Dramaga, Bogor, Indonesia (-6.550780, 106.714531). The experiment used completely randomized design with six replications. There were three treatments i.e. a) pruning by leaving 4 pairs of leaves, b) pruning by leaving 8 pairs of leaves, and c) control (without pruning). Pruning was applied after shoot leaves grew fully. The result showed that pruning significantly increased the total number of shoots and generative shoots. Pruned plants produced more flower and fruit than un-pruned ones. Pruning by leaving 4 pairs of leaves tended to produce higher number of flower and fruit than those by leaving 8 pairs of leaves. Fruit weight and internal fruit quality were not affected by pruning.
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Claim · model-written summary
Pruning significantly increased total shoots and generative shoots.
- Taxon
- Guava
Psidium guajavat0 - Treatment
- pruninge0
- Outcome
- total number of shoots and generative shootse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“pruning significantly increased the total number of shoots and generative shoots.”
t0“Guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruned plants produced more flowers and fruit than unpruned plants.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- Pruned plantse0
- Outcome
- flower and fruite0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- un-pruned onese0
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Verbatim
e0“Pruned plants produced more flower and fruit than un-pruned ones.”
t0“Guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Leaving 4 pairs of leaves tended to produce more flowers and fruit than leaving 8 pairs.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- Pruning by leaving 4 pairs of leavese0
- Outcome
- number of flower and fruite0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- tended toe0
- Comparator
- leaving 8 pairs of leavese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pruning by leaving 4 pairs of leaves tended to produce higher number of flower and fruit than those by leaving 8 pairs of leaves.”
t0“Guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning did not affect fruit weight or internal fruit quality.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- pruninge0
- Outcome
- Fruit weight and internal fruit qualitye0
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruit weight and internal fruit quality were not affected by pruning.”
t0“Guava”
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