Vol. 12, Issue 9 (2023)

Author(s):
SV Singh

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted to find out the impact of pruning on growth, yield and quality of mango cv. Dashehari. Total 10 treatments were applied on the trees. The trial was laid out in Randomized block design replicated thrice and single tree served as treatment unit. The 2 years (2020-2022) pooled data, confirmed that the vigorous growth in terms of tree height (4.12 m), trunk circumference (43.06 cm) and tree spread (3.12 m) were observed in the trees under control (M₀F₀T₀ without PBZ), whereas annually heading back pruned trees (M₂F₁T₂) showed lesser growth in terms of tree height (3.20 m) and spread (2.11 m). The annual pruning of tree by heading back of 10 cm of terminal shoots immediately after fruit harvest along with paclobutrazol application (M₁F₁T₁) proved effective for increasing the number of fruits per tree (50.11), yield (8.90 kg/tree and 14.37 t/ha), B: C ratio (4.07), maintaining fruit quality and for having the appropriate dwarfing effect on the tree.