Original scientific paper
Dynamic of cropping of `Idared` apple related to fertigation with nitrogen
Zlatko Čmelik
Stanislav Tojnko
Abstract
The trial was conducted in an ‘Idared’/M9 orchard (3000 trees/ha), designed as split-block comprising five treatments (fertigation with 45 kg N/ha, 60 kg N/ha, 120 kg N/ha, irrigation without fertilisers, and control - without irrigation and without fertilisers), and two timing variants (treatments during vegetation period from 1 May to 20 June - variant A, and treatments from 1 May to 1 August – variant B). The treatments began in the second year after planting and lasted seven years (1992-1998). Fertigation with different amounts of nitrogen had no consistent effect on the dynamic of cropping, cumulative yield and regularity of bearing. Tendency to biennial bearing was low, dynamic of yield increasing followed the same trend in all treatments, and full productivity was achieved in the fifth year after planting. This means that ‘Idared’ is a very suitable apple cultivar for growing in the system of high density planting.
Keywords
Malus x domestica; mineral nutrition; yield; dynamic of cropping; alternate bearing
Hrčak ID:
1938
URI
Publication date:
1.10.2005.
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