Author: Richard P. Marini, Extension Specialist, Horticulture; Virginia Tech
Publication Number 422-020, Posted March 2002
Figure. 3. Fruit size (fruit weight) increases as crop load (fruit/square centimeter of trunk cross-sectional area) declines from 10 to 2 fruit/square cm, and fruit weight increases as shoot length increases from 6 inches to 30 inches.
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