1Central Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair 744 101, A&N Islands
2IIHR, Hessaraghatta, Banglore 580 089
*Corresponding author's present address: CIPHET, Abohar 152 116, Punjab, E-mail: deshbsingh@yahoo.co.in
A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of paclobutrazol for induction of regular and early fruiting and improvement in quality of mango cv. Banganapalli grown under tropical and humid climate. Regular, profuse and early bearing was found to be due to paclobutrazol application. The advancement for harvesting recorded after two years of study was uniform and stable (40–45 days) in case of paclobutrazol at all the three levels (first week of April: well in advance to monsoon rains). Paclobutrazol 5 ml/Iitre/tree applied once was found to increase fruiting, fruit set, retention, yield and brought slight improvement in fruit weight and total soluble solids.
Flowering, fruit set, paclobutrazol, production, fruit quality, mango
