TIME OF DEBLOSSOMING IN RELATION TO CROPPING IN HINIDI BESINNARA MANGO TREES (Mangifera indica L.)

Early removal of mango inflorescences increase tree production and fruit quality (Mangifera indica L. cv. ‘Tommy Atkins’)

“…Ali (2014) found that pruning of malformed inflorescences increased yield of the fruits than control treatment of 'Hindy Be-sinnara', 'Ewis' and 'Sedik' mango trees. Likewise, Elkhishen (2015) mentioned that removing the apical blossom of mango cultivar 'Hindi Besinnara' at the first and third week of Feb. improved significantly the fruit yield per tree.…”

“…"A delay in flowering is usually considered advantageous, meanwhile inflorescence development when temperatures are higher, resulted in a rise within the proportion of perfect as against male flowers formed" (Mullins 1986), and provided increase to more effective fertilization (Robbertse et al 1986;Shu et al 1989;Issarakraisila ;Considine 1994). Tipping the apical inflorescences of Mango 'Hindi Besinnara' cultivar trees twice at the first and third week of Feb. enhanced the percentage of perfect flowers per inflorescence and fruit retention (Elkhishen 2015). Mango tree flowering is a vital phenological stage that playing an important role in production and yield.…”