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Effects of Weed Control and Irrigation on Pecan (Carya illinoinensis) Growth and Yield

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Michael G. Patterson  and
William D. Goff
Michael G. Patterson
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron. Soils and Alabama Agric. Exp. Stn., Auburn Univ., AL 36849
William D. Goff
Affiliation:
Hortic. Dep. and Alabama Agric. Exp. Stn., Auburn Univ., AL 36849
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Abstract

Pecan trees subjected to different weed control and irrigation regimes from planting in 1986 through 1993 produced similar yields when irrigated (400 kg/ha, 3-yr avg) and not irrigated (320 kg/ha, 3-yr avg). Trees receiving total chemical weed control produced over five times more pecans (735 kg/ha, 3-yr avg) than weedy trees (131 kg/ha, 3-yr avg). Trees receiving disking produced more pecans when irrigated (677 kg/ha, 3-yr avg) than when not irrigated (339 kg/ha, 3-yr avg). Growth rate, expressed as increase in tree stem diameter, decreased for trees in all treatments once trees began bearing.

Keywords

Pecan, Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) Koch ‘Desirable.’Drip irrigationherbicidestillagemowing
Type
Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 1994 , pp. 717 - 719
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 Weed Science Society of America 

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