Girdling Sweet Cherry Seedlings for Early Fruit Production
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1956.10.4.55Abstract
Early fruiting of seedlings is desired by the fruit breeder to permit close spacing and early evaluation of the seedlings. In the stone fruit breeding program at Prosser, Washington, apricots and peaches have fruited in the third growing season when planted at 5- by 15-foot spacings. Sweet cherries, on the other hand, normally do not produce fruit until the fifth growing season or later. Therefore, a means of inducing sweet cherry to fruit in at least the fourth growing season appeared desirable.
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