Treatment | Fruit set (%) | Fruit drop (%) | Fruit retention (%) | |||
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First year | Second year | First year | Second year | First year | Second year | |
T1 = Untreat. trees | 2.04 b | 2.00 b | 89.71 a | 81.50 a | 0.21 b | 0.37 c |
T2 = 1st week Nov | 4.13 a | 4.07 a | 91.53 a | 82.80 a | 0.35 a | 0.64 b |
T3 = 1st week Dec | 4.33 a | 3.80 a | 91.45 a | 83.95 a | 0.37 a | 0.61 b |
T4 = 1st week Jan | 4.60 a | 4.47 a | 90.87 a | 80.31 a | 0.42 a | 0.88 a |