Scientific Approach to Enhance the Income from Guava Orchards

These studies were carried out to find the effect of deblossoming of summer crop on the succeeding winter crop. It has been observed that deblossoming at full bloom stage showed promising results to increase the number of flowers, fruit set percentage, size, weight and yield of fruit and to decrease the flower and fruit drop. Time taken for flower bud opening and fruit maturity was also reduced thus an early winter crop was obtained. Deblossoming at unopened bud stage and fruit thinning at different intervals after fruit setting also showed better results than control. Fruit thinning at later stages after fruit setting, had decreasing affect on yield.