Response of apple, peach, and sweet cherry to mechanical blossom thinning

Crop load management of fruit trees is a challenge for producers. For this experiment apple, peach, and sweet cherry trees were thinned using mechanical blossom thinning (MBT), and hand blossom thinning (HBT) to mimic MBT. Apple bloom was reduced by MBT, but only one treatment consistently reduced f...

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Main Author: Sauerteig, Kendra A.
Other Authors: Cline, John
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3473

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