Flowering and Fruiting Analyses of Selected Chestnut Individuals

Young trees of selected chestnut individuals,’Guihuaxiang’ used as control,were studied on flowering and fruiting relations with shoots,characters of shoot growth,and proportions of a canopy.The results as follows:length and thickness of terminal shoots with scales of 20.0-59.9 cm and 0.5-1.49 cm,respectively,had higher number of female flowers and fruiting sets;Nodes which female flowers grew on for 95-1-26 and 95-1-9 from base of shoots were two times higher than ones of the other three;Fruiting sets were higher on the periphery and in the middle of upper canopy for all accessions,but there exited differences among individuals.It could provide practical use for fostering fruiting shoots,training and pruning,and getting higher production for young fruiting trees.