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EL CULTIVO DEL CARAMBOLO (Averroha carambola L.) : UNA ALTERNATIVA PARA EL TROPICO SECO

2005; Chapingo Autonomous University; Volume: XI; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5154/r.rchsh.2004.01.009

2007-4034

M. H. Pérez-Barraza, V. Vázquez-Valdivia, J. A. Osuna-García,

Growth and nutrition in plants

The objective was to learn the phenological behavior and production of starfruit cultivars Fwant Tung and Maha, under tropical conditions of Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit, Mexico. The study was carried out at the Santiago Ixcuintla Experiment Station, Nayarit, of the National Research Institute or Forestry, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry (INIFAP), which has a sub-humid warm climate with summer precipitation and an altitude of 22 m. Starfruit trees of both cultivars obtained from grafting, started producing fruits after two years of established. Both cultivars produce fruits all year, but show important harvest periods: February to March and September to November. In both periods produce about 150 kg of fruits per tree for ‘Fwang Tung’ and 130 kg for ‘Maha’ (six-year-old trees). Cultivar Fwang Tung shows larger fruits of 147.9 g and 7.3-cm diameter, with a higher content of total soluble solids (9.6 °Bx).