2008 Growing Season
Training Method
Percent of Trees Flowering
Survival
TCA
Flower Buds Per Tree
Number of Clusters
Number of Fruit
Minimal Pruning
98%
72%
17.4
63
6.8
14.7
Central Leader
97%
79%
11.5
50
4.4
9.3
P-value
0.63 NS
0.20 NS
0.0000***
0.015*
0.0093**
0.003**
No evidence of sun scald on fruit