Vol. 12, Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
Vikas Kumar, AK Srivastava, Om Prakesh, Subhash Chandra Singh, Vishal Chugh, Dharmendra Kumar Gautam and Vikki

Abstract:
Experiments were conducted on pruning time and level on flowering and fruit set of guava (Psidium guajava L.) cv. Lalit at Experimental Fruit Orchard of BUAT, Banda during 2021-22 and 2022-23. The experiment was laid out with six pruning time (last week of December, second week of January, last week of April, second week of May, last week of August, second week of September) and three pruning levels (20% pruning, 40% pruning, 60% pruning) in Factorial Randomized Block Design replicated trice. Among the physical growth parameter of fruit, two years and pooled data showed significantly maximum time taken to bud burst (4.47), time taken to bud sprout (17.59), time taken to flower initiation (30.79), time taken to full bloom (42.67), time taken to end of bloom (47.04), time taken to colour break in fruits (128.30), time taken to fruit maturity (135.50), were recorded in the treatment M4P1 (second week of May with 20% pruning). Maximum final fruit set (56.75) was recorded in M3P2 (last week of April with 40% pruning). Hence, the study clearly indicated the guava pruning in the last week of April with 40% pruning level found best to get maximum flowering and fruit set under the Bundelkhand condition.