Table 2.

Mean (± s.d.) number of long shoots per zone along 1‐year‐old trunks of six apple cultivars

Cultivar	Distal zone	Median zone	Basal zone	Total
Reinette	1·9 ± 1·4	3·3 ± 1·7	5·1 ± 3·3	10·7
Belrène	3·5 ± 1·1	4·7 ± 2·6	4·7 ± 2·4	11·8
Gala	1·9 ± 1·2	7·3 ± 3·0	2·7 ± 2·0	11·5
Fuji	3·9 ± 1·9	2·1 ± 1·7	8·8 ± 7·2	14·0
Elstar	3·6 ± 3·0	7·3 ± 3·6	3·4 ± 2·4	14·9
Granny	6·7 ± 2·8	8·1 ± 3·2	0·7 ± 1·6	16·7

Three zones with long shoots were observed: the distal and the basal zones contain proleptic long shoots while the median zone contains sylleptic long shoots.