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Volume 41 Number 3 Article 3 Pages: 88-89
Year 1987 Month 7
Title: Yield and Fruit Size in High Density Peach Hedgerows
Authors: T.E. Marler and J.P. Overcash
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Abstract:
'McNeely,' 'Sunqueen,' and 'Washington' peach trees set at 7,683 trees/ha yielded an average of 22.5 MT/ha die second summer in the orchard (1982). 'Washington' yielded more than the other cultivars. Fruit weight averaged acceptable marketable size for all cultivars. Third leaf trees (1983) topped at 1.5 m after the 1982 harvest yielded 51.3 MT/ha, whereas trees topped at 0.9 m after die 1982 harvest had reduced yield. Fruit size was reduced in the 1983 harvest.

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