Hedge Pruning Pecan

HortTechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-72

  Wood, Bruce W ^a   Stahmann, Deane ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Stahmann Farms Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternate bearing; Australia; Flowering; Hedging; Irregular bearing; Mechanical hedging; Production; Profit; Pruning; Quality; Topping; Yields

Indexed keywords

CARYA; CARYA ILLINOENSIS; CARYA ILLINOINENSIS;

EID: 0347604063     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.14.1.0063     Document Type: Article

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