不同整枝留果方式对甜瓜产量与品质的影响

在海南采用简易竹木大棚进行哈密瓜类甜瓜金海蜜品种不同整枝留果方式试验,结果表明,采用双蔓单果(主蔓留果)方式,甜瓜单果重、网纹、可溶性固形物含量、产量等表现最好;建议生产上使用该种整枝留果方式栽培。     

密植桃园的主干形修剪栽培试验

连续五年密植桃园的主干形修剪试验表明：主干形修剪技术用于密植栽培桃树早结果早丰产效果显著。‘春花’成苗定植后第二年产量达1300kg·666．7m-2,第三年为1500kg·666．7m-2,第四年为2250kg·666,7m-2,第五年为1750kg·666．7m-2;‘湖景蜜露’定植后第二年和第三年产量为1021kg·666．7m-2和1019kg·666．7m-2;‘锦绣’定植后第二年产量为120km·666．7m-2,第三年为1204km·666．7m-2,第四年为1876km·666．7m-2;‘沪463’定植后第三年产量为47．5kg·666．7m-2,第四年为2125kg·666．7m-2。主干形修剪夏季摘心可促进早期副梢的萌发,利用副梢坐果,均衡树势。主干形修剪对桃果实的品质有一定的影响,使果实相对变小,单果重减轻,要注意疏花疏果,加强肥水管理。     

Summer pruning reduces whole-canopy carbon fixation and transpiration in apple trees

Summary

Canopy size control is one of the major purposes of summer pruning. However, reducing canopy size might also result in less light interception, consequently decreasing canopy photosynthetic efficiency and carbohydrate production, which might lead to the imbalance of carbohydrate supply and fruit demand. To document the effectiveness of summer pruning on canopy control and the impact on canopy gas exchange, pruning treatments at four levels of intensity (unpruned, light, moderate, and severe) were carried out on mature ‘Empire’/M.9 slender spindle apple trees (Malus domestica Borkh.) on 30 July 1998 and 4 August 1999. Changes in canopy leaf area after summer pruning were estimated. Canopy net carbon exchange rate (NCER) and canopy transpiration before and after summer pruning were monitored. Canopy growth was suppressed by summer pruning and the post-pruning regrowth was insignificant. Canopy NCER was reduced in proportion to the amount of leaf area removed by summer pruning. The result suggests that commercial pruning intensity similar to the moderate to severe treatments in this study could cause a significant reduction in canopy NCER and carbohydrate production. In addition, canopy transpiration was reduced in proportion to pruning intensity. Lower water consumption and improved water status during the growing season after summer pruning might benefit fruit growth and relieve the potential detriment due to carbohydrate shortage.     

The influence of fruiting on the bud sprouting and flower induction responses to chilling in Citrus

Summary

The effect of chilling temperatures on bud sprouting and flower formation was compared on fruiting and non-fruiting ‘Owari’ satsuma mandarin (Citrus unshiu Marc) trees. On non-fruiting trees, bud dormancy was weak, and a significant proportion of buds were able to sprout at high temperatures without being chilled. Separate effects of low temperatures on bud sprouting and flower induction were demonstrated. On fruiting trees these two effects of low temperatures were also demonstrated on summer-flush buds, but not on older (spring-flush) buds. The spring-flush buds from fruiting trees scarcely sprouted without being chilled. These buds required a longer chilling period for dormancy release than for flower induction, and it was not possible to separate the effect of low temperature on flower induction from the effect on dormancy release. The presence of fruit reduced flower formation by reducing bud sprouting. Furthermore, fruit had a direct inhibitive effect on vernalization which resulted in increased formation of vegetative shoots. The effect of fruit and low temperature on flowering was unrelated to carbohydrate accumulation in the leaves or the roots.     

The effect of summer pruning and nitrogen on growth,cropping and storage quality of Cox’s Orange Pippin apple

Pruning in late summer was compared with winter pruning on mature 23-year-old spur pruned trees of Cox’s Orange Pippin on M.2 rootstock. Two nitrogen treatments were superimposed, namely a standard dressing of 126 units N (sulphate of ammonia) applied in March as compared with 288 units N (nitrate of soda) applied in mid-August at the time of summer pruning. Summer pruning reduced trunk girth increment, advanced blossom development, increased the amount of red colour on the fruits and drastically reduced the incidence of bitter pit in stored fruit. The treatments did not affect cropping. Nitrogen treatments had no overall effect upon the incidence of bitter pit, but in the first season, when bitter pit was most prevalent, high levels of N applied in August reduced the amount, a similar trend being recorded the following year.     

Fruit thinning in ‘Conference’ pear grown under deficit irrigation: Implications for fruit quality at harvest and after cold storage

Fruit thinning in pear is feasible for mitigation of water stress effects. However, it is not well known how fruit quality at harvest and after cold storage is affected by pre-harvest water stress. Even less is known about the effects of fruit thinning on quality under these circumstances. To elucidate these, we applied deficit irrigation (DI) and fruit thinning treatments to ‘Conference’ pear over the growing seasons of 2008 and 2009. At the onset of Stage II (80 and 67 days before harvest in 2008 and 2009, respectively), two irrigation treatments were applied: full irrigation (FI) and DI. FI trees received 100% of crop evapotranspiration (ETc). DI trees received no irrigation during the first three weeks of Stage II to induce water stress, but then received 20% of ETc to ensure tree survival. From bud-break until the onset of Stage II and during post-harvest, FI and DI trees received 100% of ETc. Each irrigation treatment received two thinning levels: no thinning leaving commercial crop load (∼180 fruits tree⁻¹), and hand-thinning at the onset of Stage II leaving a light crop load (∼85 fruits tree⁻¹). Under commercial crop loads, DI trees were moderately water-stressed and this had some positive effects on fruit quality. DI increased fruit firmness (FF), soluble solids concentrations (SSC) and acidity at harvest while no changes were observed in fruit maturity (based on ethylene production). Differences in FF and acidity at harvest between FI and DI fruit were maintained during cold storage. DI also reduced fruit weight loss during storage. But fruit size was reduced under DI. Fruit thinning under DI resulted in better fruit composition with no detrimental effect on fresh-market yield compared to un-thinned fruit. Fruit size at harvest and SSC values after five months of cold storage were higher in fruit from thinned trees than fruit from un-thinned trees. Fruit thinning increased fruit ethylene production, indicating advanced maturity. This may lead to earlier harvest which is desirable in years with impending drought. Fruit thinning is therefore a useful technique to enhance pear marketability under water shortage.     

不同整枝方式对秋季厚皮甜瓜品质、产量和延缓植株早衰的影响

以厚皮甜瓜"玉菇"、"翠雪5号"、"夏蜜"为试材,研究了不同整枝方式对秋茬厚皮甜瓜品质、产量及延缓植株早衰的影响。结果表明:打顶后留1~2个侧枝并不影响甜瓜植株的生长发育、果实性状和果实品质,反而能延长功能叶片的寿命,合成更多的光合产物,较好地平衡了地上部分与地下部分的生长关系,延缓植株早衰,提高维生素和部分甜瓜品种的可溶性固形物含量。     

不同栽培技术对火村红杏品质的影响

以30 a生火村红杏为试材,进行有机肥量、浇水时期、修剪、疏果4项栽培技术对红杏果实品质的影响研究.结果表明:增施生物有机肥、浇水时期及次数、修剪和疏果对火村红杏果实单果重、可溶性固形物含量、有机酸含量和维生素C含量都有不同程度的作用,其中对果实单果重、维生素C含量作用效果明显.     

Flower thinning method affects mineral composition of `Braeburn' and `Fiesta' apple fruit

Summary

Fruit mineral concentrations measured at harvest can have major effects on apple fruit quality on the tree or during storage. Orchard practices must therefore seek to optimize fruit mineral composition. The purpose of this study was to describe and elucidate the effects of hand thinning on whole trees and individual spurs on apple fruit mineral composition. Two methods of flower and fruitlet thinning were compared with no thinning on `Braeburn' and `Fiesta' apple trees. Alternate whole flower/fruitlet clusters or all but one flower/fruitlet within every cluster were removed at full bloom or 14±21 d after full bloom. Alternate-cluster thinning reduced final fruit numbers per tree and fruit Ca concentrations by up to 22%, while increasing final fruit size by up to 21%, compared with no thinning. These effects on fruit Ca concentrations were also measured across a range of fruit size classes. Within-cluster thinning at full bloom or up to 21 d after full bloom also reduced fruit numbers per tree but increased fruit size substantially, by up to 65% compared with no thinning, this effect being less for later thinning. However, fruit mineral concentrations were not influenced by this treatment. Some fruiting spurs were singled to one fruit 14 d after full bloom on alternately flower cluster thinned trees and on trees that had not been thinned at bloom, and compared with unthinned spurs on the same trees. Fruit Ca concentrations, primary spur leaf areas and primary spur leaf areas per fruit were greater for spurs bearing a single fruit (achieved by thinning manually or through natural abscission) than for multi-fruited spurs on the same trees. Spurs bearing one fruit on unthinned trees had greater fruit Ca concentrations, primary spur leaf areas and primary spur leaf areas per fruit, but lower fruit weight than the same spurs on alternate-cluster thinned trees. However, spurs on unthinned and alternate-cluster thinned trees with the same primary leaf areas per fruit had similar final Ca concentrations. Fruit size and crop loads were found not to be important in explaining fruit Ca concentration differences between thinning methods. However our results suggest that thinning method may affect Ca accumulation in apple fruit by altering the relationship between fruit numbers and leaf areas on individual spurs.     

The influence of growing season on fruit yield and quality of greenhouse melon (Cucumis melo L.) grown in nutrient film technique in a Mediterranean climate

Summary

The influence of growing season on some physiological and biochemical variates related to fruit yield and quality was investigated in melon (Cucumis melo L.) plants cultivated in nutrient film technique in a greenhouse located at Pisa, Central Italy, from mid-March to mid-June, or from mid-July to mid-September. Compared with spring, the plants grown in summer exhibited faster growth and development, but produced fewer fruits of larger size and poorer quality due to reduced sucrose content. Growing season did not affect total leaf area, but dry-matter production and partitioning to the fruits was significantly lower in summer than in spring. Summer fruit ripened within 30–35 d after anthesis, about 14 d fewer than in spring. Higher average temperature was presumably responsible for earlier fruit maturation in summer, as in both seasons all melons were harvested after 450–500 degree-days (base temperature of 12°C) from anthesis. Fruit swelling did not account for the reduction of sucrose content in summer-grown fruits, which instead was due to shortage of photoassimilate supply and inadequate sucrose synthesis, as suggested by the rate of leaf gas exchange and the activity of sucrose phosphate synthase in the fruit flesh, as determined during the final stages of fruit development. Lower solar radiation was presumably responsible for the reduced leaf carbon assimilation in summer, as growing season did not affect leaf turgor, stomatal conductance, mineral status and chlorophyll content.     

Biennial bearing in apple and pear: A literature survey

Fruit growers do not want biennial bearing which is an old problem in fruit growing. Although the problem is less urgent with modern cultivars and cultural techniques, it is still there. In particular, some cultivars of high fruit quality, which have a biennial bearing habit, are a challenge to modern growers. The formation of fruit buds is the central problem, which may be influenced by a number of factors such as, e.g., fruit set and fruit growth, type of branch, rootstock, pruning and growth regulators. By deflowering halves of trees, it is possible to have at least halves of a crop each year and this seems a practical solution for home gardens, although one does not obtain a full crop. The best prospects are for the use of growth regulators which can promote fruit bud formation in an “on-year” and reduce it in an “off-year”. These might be used after thinning of an excess of fruits or even when no thinning has taken place.     

Pruning Trials With Worcester Pearmain Apple

Three pruning treatments were compared on Worcester Pearmain on M.IV rootstock, viz.: open-centre tree, established-spur pruned; delayed open-centre tree, established-spur pruned; regulated pruned tree. In the fifteenth year secondary treatments were begun, the trees being pruned either annually or in alternate years, with and without fruit thinning by hand. The trees were grubbed after 21 years and scion weights were obtained.

There were no important differences in growth and cropping between open-centre and delayed open-centre trees. Regulated trees had an 11% smaller area of branch spread than established-spur pruned trees at 21 years. At 15 years there was no significant difference between treatments in total weight of prunings, but three times as much old wood as new had been removed from regulated trees compared with two and a half times as much new wood as old from established-spur pruned trees. During a 6-year period, the same weight of wood was removed from alternate-year pruned trees as from those pruned annually.

During the first 10 years regulated trees yielded twice as much fruit as did established-spur pruned ones, and 49% more during the second 10-year period. In many years, in the absence of fruit thinning, regulated trees bore smaller fruits than did established-spur pruned trees. Regulated trees had more red colour on the fruits than established-spur pruned trees, and alternate-year pruning, whether regulated or established-spur, gave more red colour on the fruits than did annual pruning, especially in seasons following no pruning. Alternate-year pruning had no harmful effect upon fruit size. Fruit thinning had no important effect upon red colour but it increased the percentage crop weight in the larger size grades, especially on established-spur pruned trees. The regulated method is well suited to the growth habit of Worcester provided that the fruit is thinned by hand or chemical spray in years of heavy setting.

The relative ratios between total crop : scion weight and crop 15–21 years : scion weight, were similar; scion weights were twice as heavy as weights of prunings.     

Effect of Pruning and Partial Disbudding on the Cropping of Comice and Beurré Hardy Pears

The effects of three intensities of pruning on fruit set, fruit bud development, cropping and vigour of intensively grown Cornice and Beurré Hardy pears were compared over a three-year period. Severe pruning, in which extension shoots were cut back to fruit buds on the two-year-old wood, greatly increased the set of fruits per 100 flower clusters and reduced vigour, in comparison with a renewal type of pruning. Severe pruning of Comice caused a relative reduction in the number of fruit buds in subsequent years, so the improvement in fruit set did not lead to an increase in crop per tree, but with Beurré Hardy fruit bud formation was unaffected and the crop per tree was increased by hard pruning. There was an improvement in yield in relation to tree size with both varieties. Pruning to fruit buds provides a means of increasing yields per acre by ‘containing’ pear trees at close spacings without reducing the yield per tree.

Partial disbudding just before blossoming increased fruit set but not enough to offset the reduction in number of fruit buds. Supplementary pollination did not improve the yields of Comice and increased the crop of Hardy in one year only.     

山地苹果树更新修剪对树体营养及生长的影响

 在陕北黄土丘陵沟壑区以常规修剪为对照,探讨更新修剪对盛果期山地苹果树体营养和生长方面的影响。结果表明：更新修剪提高了叶片、枝条中的氮、磷、钾、钙含量,提高了果实中的氮、钾、钙含量,对果实中的磷和根系中的磷、钾无显著影响;降低了根系中的氮、钙含量;显著增加了长枝、中枝的比例,显著降低了短枝、叶丛枝比例,促进了枝条健壮发育。更新修剪增加了叶面积,提高了叶绿素、单果质量、果实维生素C和有机酸含量,对果实可溶性固形物、总糖、着色面积等无显著影响,提高了果实产量,极显著提高了果园的经济产值。     

苹果四季修剪技术

传统意义上的苹果修剪只有夏剪和冬剪,而事实上需通过春季弧形刻芽、挖芽、绞镒等和秋季疏大枝、除萌、疏减、拉枝、轻截等措施的补充,才能使修剪进一步完善.本文介绍了苹果夏、冬两季修剪,并提出了春剪和秋剪技术要点,以期通过春、夏、秋、冬四季修剪配套技术措施对树体进行调节控制,达到早实、丰产、优质、高效的栽培目的.     

Individual and combined effects of shading and thinning chemicals on abscission and dry-matter accumulation of ‘Royal Gala’ apple fruit

Summary

Shade and chemical thinning treatments were applied to mature ‘Royal Gala’/M.26 apple trees either alone or in combination to study their effects on the pattern of abscission and growth of spur fruit. Natural fruit drop occurred in two distinct waves in both years; the first wave peaked 20 d after bloom (DAB) at a weekly abscission rate of c 15% in both years. The second wave of fruit drop in 2001 occurred earlier and was more intense than in the previous season. Application of NAA as a bloom thinner increased the maximum weekly abscission rate during the first wave of fruit drop in both years. Chemical fruit thinning treatments (Carbaryl in 2000, BA or delayed lime sulphur in 2001) had no effect on abscission or growth of spur fruit. Covering trees with 80% shade cloth for 3 d (2000) or 5 d (2001) stimulated a wave of fruit abscission that peaked c 10–15 d after removal of the cloth. Shade during the period from 20–25 DAB stimulated more fruit drop than earlier shade treatments, resulting in weekly abscission rates as high as 70%.There were no additive effects of combining thinning chemicals and shade treatments on abscission of fruit from spurs. However, additive effects of shade and thinning treatments were observed when measured as whole-tree crop density values, indicating that abscission of fruit from one-year wood was stimulated when low light conditions preceded application of (fruit) thinning chemicals. Shading trees from 34–39 DAB in 2000 resulted in a transient reduction and subsequent increase in the rate of dry-matter accumulation in fruit that were retained. Considerable challenges lie ahead in developing models of fruit growth that can account for the inter-dependent effects of light and crop load on fruit abscission and development that exist within an orchard environment.     

An Experiment in Pruning Cox’s Orange Pippin Apple Trees in Alternate Years

Five pruning treatments were compared on Cox’s Orange Pippin on M.II rootstock, viz.

1. Open-centre tree, established-spur pruned

2. Open-centre tree, renewal-pruned

3. Delayed open-centre tree, established-spur pruned

4. Delayed open-centre tree, renewal-pruned

5. Regulated-pruned tree.

At 15 years, secondary pruning treatments were begun and carried on for a further 7-year period, the trees being pruned by the same methods but either annually or in alternate years. Differences in growth and cropping between trees pruned to open-centre and delayed open-centre shapes were small, but open-centre trees cropped more heavily than did delayed open-centre trees when renewal-pruned, probably on account of their greater branch spread. The method used in pruning the laterals had an effect upon cropping during the first 10 years. At the end of the trial there was no effect of either primary or secondary treatments upon trunk girth, neither was there a significant difference in girth increment between the secondary treatments. Almost the same amount of wood was removed from trees pruned in alternate years as from those pruned annually, but a greater proportion of old to new wood was removed from trees pruned in alternate years. Pruning in alternate years increased the cropping of established-spur pruned trees but not with regulated or renewal-pruned trees. There was no consistently adverse effect upon fruit size but, when a year of heavy setting followed a winter when the trees were left unpruned, fruit size was reduced and early fruit thinning would have been necessary to lessen the proportion of fruit in the two smallest size grades. With this variety fruit colour was unaffected by pruning in alternate years.     

油桃裂果研究进展

从品种特性、果实生长发育特点、果实细胞组织结构等内部因素和气象因子、土壤条件、栽培措施等外部因素方面综述了油桃裂果的影响因素,寻找引起油桃裂果的主要原因,并提出防止油桃裂果相应的技术措施。首先从园地选择、品种选择方面尽量做到适地适栽,因地制宜,另外果园增施有机肥,提高土壤透水性和保水性,适时灌水,及时排水,使水分保持均衡状态,合理修剪,加强病虫害防治,严格疏花疏果,实行套袋栽培等一系列科学化管理均是防止油桃裂果和果锈的有效技术措施。     

果树根剪控冠技术研究——文献综述

综述了果树根系修剪（断根）对其根系再生，枝叶生长和果实发育的影响。随根剪程度不同，对树体生长发育的促控效果亦不同，轻剪有促进生长作用；适当重剪则抑制枝叶生长，具有控冠效果。对根剪作用机制、根剪控冠技术应用及发展趋势、存在问题和今后研究方向进行了讨论。认为根剪技术是果树矮化密植栽培中一条有效的控冠途径。     

Grundlagen der Reaktion von Apfelbäumen auf Wurzelschnitt – eine Übersicht

Root pruning in order to reduce shoot growth is characterized by inconsistent results and has unavoidable side effects. The theoretical basis for reliable predictions of apple tree's responses to root pruning is still largely missing. Here it is proposed that root pruning primarily interferes with the plant's mechanism of growth control: Reduced provision of cytokinins by the roots → reduced activity of shoot gibberellins → limited shoot growth and reduced auxin formation by the shoots → less inhibition of root growth and less shoot competition for carbohydrates → renewed root formation, cytokinin supply by the roots and shoot gibberellin activity → probably renewed shoot growth. Obviously, the initially reduced activity of gibberellins is crucial for the reduction of shoot growth and the various side-effects of root pruning. It depends – next to the extent and timing of root pruning – on the endogenous and external growing conditions. If these are optimal, the effect of root pruning is very limited as renewed root formation and vigorous root growth subsequently soon abolish the reduction of gibberellin activity. For a general recommendation of root pruning as part of a strategy of growth control, the prerequisites are missing.