Pruning response to shoot growth, fruit set and yield in peach

摘要

In peach, the proper pruning is quite instrumental in regulating the tree vigour, fruit quality and productivity potential. The peach fruits are borne on one year old wood, which becomes barren afterward and no flower bud differentiation or subsequent fruit formation takes place in this part of the branch. Each growth which has produced fruit needs to be pruned, otherwise the tree will continue adding barren wood year after year. So, a judicious pruning is of paramount significance in regulating theshoot growth and fruit yield of peach, which is determined by the cultivar, location and prevailing agro-climatic conditions (Daulta and Singh, 4; Badiyala and Awasthi, 1 and Prakash and Nautiyal, 6). Keeping in view the varying response of peach cultivars to severity of pruning with respect to shoot growth and fruit yield under different agro-climatic conditions, the present experiment was planned on peach cv. Tessia Samisto under the humid-temperate conditions of the Garhwal Himalayas.