A Study on the Fruit Setting Habits of the Fruit Branches of Shuijing Honey Pomelo
To investigate the length and thickness of parent branches,the length of leaf-bearing branches,and the number of leaves of adult Shuijing honey pomelo trees and to analyze the relationship between these parameters and fruit set.The results showed that number of fruiting(70.10%)and foliated fruiting(74.23%)branches in 10-30 cm was the greatest.The results The number of fruit-bearing(82.72%)and leaf-bearing branches(77.00%)was biggest when the parent branches were 0.5-0.8 cm and>1.0 cm in diameter,respectively.The number of leaf-bearing branches in the range of 1-8 was the greatest,and the number of fruiting branches(72.00%)was also the greatest.The number of fruiting branches and the fruiting branches with lengths of 5-15 cm were the greatest(57.00%).There was no significant correlation between the length or thickness of the parent branches and the number of fruits on the leafy branches.There was a significant positive correlation between the num-ber of leaves and the number of fruits(r=0.998**,p=0.000).When the length of the leafy branches was 5-15 cm,the number of fruiting branches and the number of fruits reached a maximum,but there was no significant correlation between the length of the leafy branches and the number of fruiting branches or the number of fruits hanging.However,the number of fruiting branches and the number of fruits hanging were significantly positively correlated(r=0.998**,p=0.000).It can be concluded that the parent branches of the fruits of Crystal honey pomelo are mainly branches with lengths<30 cm and thicknesses<1.0 cm.The number of parent branches of fruit with leaves was mainly<15 cm and the number of leaves was<8.
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