Effects of Plant Thinning on Clone’s Flowering and Seeding in Chinese Fir Seed Orchard
- Received Date: 1994-04-16
- Available Online: 2012-12-04
Abstract: The plant thinning with the intensity at 20%~30% was conducted in three 12-year-old Chinese fir seed orchards and the observations were made in the later three years.It showed that clones' averaged amount of female cone flowers produced by the forests where it have been thinned is 4.17 times that of the check,and the male cone flowers is 2.71 times of the check.The per hm2 yield of cone in thinned plot is 1.39~1.63 times that of the untreated,and the single tree yield of cone in thinned plot is 1.41~2.21 times that of the untreated.Meanwhile,the yearly growth of the plant height,DBH and lateral branch also increased obviously.