
%0 Journal Article
%A Moss, GI 
%T Promoting flowering in sweet orange
%J Australian Journal of Agricultural Research
%D 1971/08/01
%V 22
%N 4
%P 625-629
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AR9710625
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AR9710625 
%X Two substances reported to stimulate flowering in citrus, Alar (N-dimethylamino-succinamic acid) at 3000 p.p.m. and Hyvar-X (5-bromo-6-n1ethyl-3-s-butyluracil) at 783 p.p.m., when applied twice to sweet orange plants under marginally flower-inducing conditions (24/19¦C day/night temperature) resulted in fewer flowers being formed than in the controls. These substances had no significant effect on the numbers of flowers formed by either fruit-bearing or non-fruiting plants under flower-inducing conditions (18/13¦C day/night temperature). In the field, Alar (3000 p.p.m.) applied twice or girdling of branches, about the time of flower formation, did not promote flowering on either fruit-bearing or non-fruiting branches. 
