A field trial conducted from 2011 to 2015 to study the growth, physiology, fruit yield and quality of fig (Ficus carica L.) cultivars Deanna and Poona under tree densities of 1000, 800, 666, 571 and 500 plants per hectare indicated that high density planting with 1000 or 800 plants per hectare was superior to other planting densities for maintaining tree vigour and fruit yield under continuous cropping during the initial orchard years. With decrease in tree densities, growth characters like tree height, shoot length, canopy spread, leaf number and trunk circumference declined gradually which was more pronounced under 500 plants per hectare. |
