Table 9.

The effects of removing 50% of fruit within all racemes, for ‘Baldwin’ plants, on the number of new shoots, mean shoot length and total shoot length per plant

Treatment	No. of new shoots	Mean shoot length (dm)	Total shoot length (cm)
Control (unthinned)	24	3·44	828
Thinned to 50 %	23	3·85	872
F. prob.	n.s.	*	n.s.
s.e.d. (d.f. = 11)	2·0	0·16	82

F. prob., F. probabilities: *, 0·05; n.s., non-significant.

s.e.d., Standard error of differences between the means; d.f., residual degrees of freedom for comparison.