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• • • • • • • 70 Remaining weak, unwanted and inter crossing branches are removed. Third year training consists of heading back and thinning out of unwanted, diseased and interfering branches. It is completed during fourth year. During this period, only light pruning with heading back of branches is done. Bearing trees are pruned to maintain a balance between vegetative and reproductive growth. Pruning during pre bearing period is usually kept light and corrective. Light heading back and removal of water sprouts, dead, diseased, and interfering branches are practised. Heavy heading back of shoots should be avoided as it encourages development of long upright water sprouts. Plum generally bears on spurs but some fruits are produced laterally on 1 year old shoots. The life span of plum spurs is 5-6 years. Pruning is necessary for spur renewal and 75-80% removal of new growth in each season. Plum requires 25-30cm of annual extension growth for proper fruiting. Therefore, 25-30% thinning along with one third to half heading back of shoots is recommended on Santa Rosa plum of Himachal Pradesh. Canopy Management in Fruit Crops Managed plant develop more fruits
Pomegranate Pomegranate has wide range of adaptability. It is a deciduous plant under sub tropics where it is cultivated quite extensively. But under tropical conditions, pomegranate is an evergreen plant and thus adds continuous growth. Under both situations, this fruit tree needs to be trained properly and pruned regularly for better fruit production. For a bush, the plants are trained not as a single stem as in other fruit plants but as a multi stem. Immediately after planting in the field, it should be headed back to 30-40 cm, assuring the availability of a number of buds below. During the first growing season, about four shoots may be selected which will form the main limbs of the plant. • • • • • If its plants are to be trained to single stem then heading back in the field after plantation is done at about 70 cm. During first year’s growth, 5-6 shoots are selected to form the scaffold limbs. The main stem is kept free without any branch up to 40 cm and any shoot, therefore, coming from below this point is removed. The pomegranate has a tendency to put forth many suckers, which need to be removed right from the beginning in case of single stem training. Pomegranate plants do not require pruning except removal of ground suckers, water shoots, cross branches, dead and diseased twigs, giving a shape to the tree. Pomegranate fruits are borne terminally on short spurs, arising from mature shoots, which have the capacity to bear fruits for 3-4 years. With advance in age they decline. A little thinning and pruning of old spurs to encourage growth of new ones are required. Better flowering on properly trained plants Canopy Management in Fruit Crops 71
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Apple The plants are trained accord
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• • • To check excessive vigo
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Apricot Apricot fruits are produced
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Avocado Young avocado trees should
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Banana In most banana growing regio
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Page 29 and 30: Cashew Canopy in cashew, a fast gro
Page 31 and 32: • The yield of bush pruned plants
Page 33 and 34: • If plants are properly protecte
Page 35 and 36: Cherry Cherry plants require more c
Page 37 and 38: Grapefruit The grapefruit plants ar
Page 39 and 40: Pruning Tips • Pruning should be
Page 41 and 42: Sweet Orange Sweet orange trees are
Page 43 and 44: Custard apple Custard apple require
Page 45 and 46: Fig Fig plants require annual pruni
Page 47 and 48: Grape Canopy of grapevine includes
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Page 53 and 54: • • • The multiple shoots dev
Page 55 and 56: Jamun Jamun plants need to be train
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Page 59 and 60: Litchi Management of optimum statur
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Page 63 and 64: Mango Tree canopy management, espec
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Page 71 and 72: Peach Peach fruit is mainly borne o
Page 73 and 74: Pear Proper training and pruning of
Page 75 and 76: Persimmon Persimmon plants are trai
Page 77: Plum Plum plants are slower than th
Page 81 and 82: Sapota Sapota being an evergreen tr
Page 83 and 84: Walnut Modified central leader syst
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