Abstract
Elimination of rainy-season crops is pivotal to encourage winter crops in guava. In general, rainy-season guava fruits are of poor fruit quality, insipid in taste, have poor shelf life, and mostly affected by many insect pests. Pruning is also considered one of the most eco-friendly methods for crop regulation. To fully comprehend the impact of pruning time and severity on flowering, fruit quality, and crop production, a field experiment was carried out. Three alternative pruning times (mid-April, mid-May, and mid-June) at different pruning levels (low, moderate and heavy pruning) were employed in the experiment, which was designed as two-factor factorial RBD. For obtaining optimal fruiting, size of fruit and quality of fruit attributes, mid-May pruning has proven to be the best time for guava pruning. Whereas, concerning pruning severity, moderate pruning (pruning 1/2 of the current season’s shoot length) showed a good response to yield and fruit quality parameters. Therefore, the present study concluded that moderate pruning of guava trees during the month of mid-May proved to be the most effective for producing winter-season guava with good yield and superior quality.
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Claim · model-written summary
Mid-May pruning was the best pruning time for optimal fruiting, fruit size and fruit quality attributes in guava.
- Taxon
- guava
Psidium guajavae0 - Treatment
- mid-May pruninge0
- Outcome
- fruiting, size of fruit and quality of fruit attributese0
- Direction
- beste0
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Verbatim
e0“For obtaining optimal fruiting, size of fruit and quality of fruit attributes, mid-May pruning has proven to be the best time for guava pruning”
Claim · model-written summary
Moderate pruning (1/2 of the current season shoot length) gave a good response in yield and fruit quality parameters of guava.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- moderate pruning (pruning 1/2 of the current season’s shoot length)e0
- Outcome
- yield and fruit quality parameterse0
- Direction
- good responsee0
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Verbatim
e0“moderate pruning (pruning 1/2 of the current season’s shoot length) showed a good response to yield and fruit quality parameters”
t0“Winter Guava (Psidium guajava L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that moderate pruning of guava trees in mid-May is most effective for winter-season guava with good yield and superior quality.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavae0
- Treatment
- moderate pruning of guava trees during the month of mid-Maye0
- Outcome
- good yield and superior qualitye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“moderate pruning of guava trees during the month of mid-May proved to be the most effective for producing winter-season guava with good yield and superior quality”
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