Volume 51 Number 4 Article 43
Year 1997 Month 10
Title: Rootstock and Pruning Influence on Yield and Fruit Quality of īLisbon` Lemon
Authors: E. Fallahi and M. Kilby
Abstract:
Effects of three rootstocks and five methods of pruning on the "first harvest yield", total yield and fruit
quality of 'Lisbon' lemon (Citrus limon (L.) Burm) were studied over the 1986-88 seasons.
The pruning treatments were applied in April 1986. Trees on Indian rough lemon had a higher first harvest yield and total yield
than the those on other rootstocks.
Trees on rough lemon (C. Jambhiri Lush) had significantly higher soluble
solids concentrations (SSC) than those on Volkamer lemon (C. limon Burm f.) in 1987 and those on Indian
rough lemon in both 1986 and 1987. In 1986 and 1988, trees which weve moderately cut on one side and the
top had a higher first harvest yield than the trees that received severe or moderate cuts on both sides and the
top.
However, uncut (control) trees had a higher total cumulative yield than the trees that were severely or
moderately cut on both sides and the top.
Fruit size in 1986 increased as the severity of branch-cutting increased.
Fruit from trees with moderate or severe pruning on two sides and the top had thicker rind than those
from trees with other treatments.
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