Influência do paclobutrazol e da temperatura ambiente sobre o florescimento e frutificação da limeira ácida 'Tahiti'

Abstract

The growth retardant paclobutrazol (PBZ) was applied on the acid lime 'Tahiti's cultivated in pots in a growth chamber under controlled temperature of 28 ºC day/ 18 ºC night, and photoperiod of 16 hours of light, with photosynthetic photons flow (PPF) of about 170 µmol m-2 s-1on grafted on the lemon tree 'Cravo', coming from two temperature conditions (25 ºC day/ 20 ºC night) and (36 ºC the maximum average and 16 ºC the minimum average ones). After 30 days the application of PBZ, when plants from greenhouse were in the middle of flowering, it was evaluated the number of shooting, number and flowers and, later on, the number of fruits per plant. The PBZ application increased the flowering and fructification in the plants submitted to the conditions of low temperatures. In those plants the PBZ increased the number of fruits due to the high flowering. However the PBZ was not effective in the induction of flowering on the acid lime 'Tahiti' under the conditions of temperature of 25 ºC day and 20 ºC night.