Intensive plum orchard with summer training and pruning [PDF]
An intensive plum orchard model was created for two types of fruit harvesting: by hand and with a self-propelled straddle harvester working in continuous motion.
A. Mika, Z. Buler
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Summer pruning in Mediterranean vineyards: is climate change affecting its perception, modalities, and effects? [PDF]
Summer pruning encompasses a series of operations typically performed on the grapevine during the growing season. This review provides an update on the research conducted over the last 20 years on the modalities and strategies of main summer pruning ...
Stefano Poni +2 more
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Summer Pruning, an Eco-Friendly Approach to Controlling Bitter Pit and Preserving Sensory Quality in Highly Vigorous Apple cv. ‘Reinette du Canada’ [PDF]
Summer pruning reduces vegetative growth in apple trees, but it could have an impact on fruit quality. This study analyzed the effects of summer pruning as an eco-friendly pre-harvest alternative to chemical growth regulation inputs on instrumental and ...
Marcos Guerra +3 more
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Converting Tall Spindle Apple Trees to Narrow Walls with Summer and Dormant Hedging Plus Root Pruning [PDF]
Recently, some commercial apple growers have been adopting hedging as an alternative or supplement to hand-pruning. With increasing labor costs across the United States, alternatives to hand-pruning and current training systems are being considered.
Thiago Campbell +2 more
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Long-term summer pruning in peach trees: is it an advisable cultural practice? [PDF]
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Ruiz Sánchez, M. Carmen +5 more
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Traditional and innovative summer pruning techniques for vineyard management [PDF]
This review paper highlights physiological and vine performance effects of widely adopted summer pruning operations such as leaf removal, shoot trimming and positioning and cluster thinning. Leaf removal is addressed either under its traditional configuration, i.e.
PALLIOTTI, Alberto, Poni S.
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Photosynthetic acclimation of apple spur leaves to summer-pruning [PDF]
Abstract A/Ci and photosynthetic light response curves for gas exchange characteristics were measured for spur leaves of 25-year-old ‘Golden Delicious’ and ‘Granny Smith’ apple trees (Malus domestica Borkh.) to investigate their acclimation capacity to a shade-to-sun transition in a commercial apple orchard.
Mierowska A. +3 more
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Pruning practices influence infection and dissemination of Calosphaeria pulchella, the cause of Calosphaeria canker of sweet cherry [PDF]
Calosphaeria canker of sweet cherry, caused by Calosphaeria pulchella, is a limiting factor for sweet cherry production, but the role of pruning practices on pathogen dissemination remains unknown.
Mónica BERBEGAL, Josep ARMENGOL
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The effect of summer pruning on solar radiation conditions in apple orchards [PDF]
The aim of this study was to measure the solar radiation conditions in the tree and around the tree of pruned (summer pruning) and unpruned trees in an intensive apple orchard.
I. Gonda +3 more
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SHOOT REGULATION THROUGH SUMMER PRUNING ATTHE BULGARIAN GRAPE VARIETY MAVRUD
The present study evaluates the influence of different summer(green)prunings on the shoot growth dynamics of the Mavrud variety, grown in the area of the village of Benkovski, Plovdiv region, Bulgaria. In 2023 and 2024, four variants of
M. Mihaylov
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