Abstract
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Highlights
Waxapple is one of the important fruits in Taiwan, they are cultivated mainly at the farmlands of Kaohsiung and Pingtung
The soil properties, nutrient concentration in leaves and fruit quality were shown in Figures 1 to 3
The results showed that soil porosity, organic matter and soil moisture were all higher at the area of two kinds of sod culture than non-sod culture
Summary
Waxapple is one of the important fruits in Taiwan, they are cultivated mainly at the farmlands of Kaohsiung and Pingtung. The factors including climate (temperature, sunlight, and rainfall etc.), cultivation and management (pruning, flower and fruit thinning etc.), and appropriate fertilization significantly influence the growth and development, sugar content, color, and even abscission and cracking of the waxapple fruit (Kuo et al, 2004). Yen et al (2004) believed that spraying Chung-Hsin 100 (plant extract) 1000X solution in the winter helped to reduce the fruit cracking ratio by 25%. Another reason that rainfalls in the mature stage of waxapple result in significant fruit cracking. The effect of appropriate fertilization, sod culture and the moisture of soil are evaluated on the quality of waxapple (e.g. sugar content, size, weight, and fruit cracking ratio)
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