Table 3. P values of the F ratios from ANOVA for the effects of flowering induction practice, fruit maturity induction practice, harvesting practice and their interactions on average infructescence, crown and fruit weights and ratio crown: infructescence length in the two experiments per cultivar.

Fruit quality/Factor	Cv. Sugarloaf		Cv. Smooth Cayenne
	Expt 1	Expt 2	Expt 3	Expt 4
Infructescence weight (kg)
Flowering induction practice (FIP)	0.008 **	0.048 *	0.000 ***	0.000 ***
Maturity induction practice (MIP)	0.199	0.033 *	0.003 **	0.004 **
Harvesting practice (HP)	0.742	0.510	0.546	0.261
FIP × MIP	0.192	0.568	0.058	0.529
FIP × HP	0.520	0.943	0.935	0.495
MIP × HP	0.936	0.354	0.734	0.152
FIP × MIP × HP	0.344	0.295	0.386	0.775
Fruit weight (kg)
Flowering induction practice (FIP)	0.060	0.457	0.001 **	0.000 ***
Fruit maturity practice (MIP)	0.179	0.033 *	0.002 **	0.003 **
Harvesting practice (HP)	0.560	0.439	0.528	0.243
FIP × MIP	0.426	0.676	0.015 *	0.902
FIP × HP	0.698	0.957	0.878	0.666
MIP × HP	0.572	0.366	0.785	0.303
FIP × MIP × HP	0.179	0.351	0.272	0.990
Ratio crown: infructescence length
Flower induction practice (FIP)	0.000 ***	0.000 ***	0.000 ***	0.001 **
Fruit maturity practice (FMP)	0.079	0.160	0.006 **	0.447
Harvesting practice (HP)	0.250	0.053	0.446	0.968
FIP × FMP	0.589	0.035 *	0.000 ***	0.004 **
FIP × HP	0.212	0.227	0.957	0.346
FMP × HP	0.493	0.592	0.216	0.138
FIP × FMP × HP	0.695	0.522	0.788	0.350

* Significant at the 0.05 probability level

** Significant at the 0.01 probability level

*** Significant at the 0.001 probability level

Values in bold indicate the P-value considered to establish the effect (main or interaction) of the flowering induction practice, the maturity induction practice or the harvesting practice.