Fruit weight and number of fruits per cladode depend on fruiting cladode fresh and dry weight in Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Miller variety ‘Rojo pelón’

•Fruiting occurred on cladodes with fresh and dry weights surpassing 144g and 14.4g, respectively.•One-year-old cladodes with ≈144 to ≈964g of fresh weight produced 6 fruits or even more.•Maximum number of fruits of ≈15 could be strongly ascribable to ≈50g of cladode dry weight. In Opuntia ficus-ind...

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Published in:Scientia horticulturae 2013-09, Vol.161, p.165-169
Main Authors: Valdez-Cepeda, R.D., Blanco-Macías, F., Magallanes-Quintanar, R., Vázquez-Alvarado, R., Méndez-Gallegos, S. de Jesús
Format: Article
Language:English
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Cactus pear
Dry weight
Fresh weight
Fruit number
Fruit weight
One-year-old-cladode
Yield
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Summary:•Fruiting occurred on cladodes with fresh and dry weights surpassing 144g and 14.4g, respectively.•One-year-old cladodes with ≈144 to ≈964g of fresh weight produced 6 fruits or even more.•Maximum number of fruits of ≈15 could be strongly ascribable to ≈50g of cladode dry weight. In Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Miller, the wide range of environmental conditions in which it grows implies a great variability in fruit yield and fruit ripening, among other issues. In this research work, we studied the dependence of fruit weight or number of fruits per cladode on fruiting cladode fresh or dry weight for the ‘Rojo Pelón’ variety by means of the boundary line approach and using 60 terminal fruiting 1-year-old cladodes and 480 fruits of O. ficus-indica variety ‘Rojo Pelón’ from twenty 6-year-old trees distributed at a density of 625plantsha−1. Fruiting occurred on cladodes with fresh and dry weights surpassing 144g and 14.4g, respectively. Cladodes with ≈144g to ≈964g of fresh weight produced 6 fruits or even more; cladodes with ≈30g to ≈70g of dry weight increase the probability of producing 11 fruits or more. The maximum fruit weight of ≈116g may be related to ≈550g of cladode fresh weight, and the maximum number of fruits of ≈15 could be strongly linked to ≈558g of cladode fresh weight. The maximum fruit weight of ≈117g may be considerably attributed to ≈61g of cladode dry weight, whereas the maximum number of fruits of ≈15 can be strongly ascribable to ≈50g of cladode dry weight.
ISSN:0304-4238
1879-1018
DOI:10.1016/j.scienta.2013.06.009