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Computational methods
Computational methods
1. Calendar date It is one of the commonly used indices of maturity and is reasonably accurate provided flowering and weather during growing season is normal. But standardization requires study for many seasons for given variety, location, rootstock etc.
Eg. Mango harvesting period β April to July
It is reliable but varies greatly from year β to - year and location βto- location. In such case the optimum date of harvest can be predicted by doing night temperature correction for 15 days fallowing full bloom. For every 10F variation from an average night temperature, a correction of one day is made in the standard figure from full bloom.
Eg. Mango 110 -125 day (Var. Alphonso and Pairi ), Banana 99 - 107 days in dwarf Cavendish
Optimum maturity is computed by the sum of mean daily temperature, above base temperature ( 10oC/50oF for apple)for a period concerned. The number of degree-days to maturity is determined over a period of several years. 10oC /50oF is the temperature at which growth occurs for apple and base temperature varies with crop.
The degree day is based on a growth-temperature relation. However this heat units work only within limited temperature. Heat units are not useful for photoperiod sensitive species. A Heat unit is calculated by - (daily mean temp β base temp) X No. of Days (flowering to harvest) Base temperature for tomato, spinach and pumpkin is 150, 20 and 130C respectively.
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