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Yield decreased significantly at 29,040 plants per acre.
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e0“A significant decrease in yield was obtained at the population of 29,040 plants per acre.”
Title
Influence of Row Spacing and Plant Density on Single Harvest Tomato Yields1
Gerald E. Wilcox Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1970. doi:10.21273/jashs.95.4.435
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect At 50% ripeness, yield increased from 6.0 to 13.1 tons per acre over 1,815 to 7,260 plants per acre.
- Intervention effect At 50% ripeness, yield remained constant from 7,260 to 29,040 plants per acre in single rows.
- Intervention effect At 50% ripeness, yield remained constant from 4,840 to 58,080 plants per acre in twin rows.
- Intervention effect At 85% ripeness, single row yield rose from 7.5 to 20.8 tons per acre as density rose.
- Observation Twin row ripe fruit yield plateaued at 19.3 to 22.8 tons per acre.
- Intervention effect Three-inch plant spacing reduced yield significantly at the later harvest.
- Method / resource A power curve expressed yield per plant against plants per acre.