Today's times call for as much crop yield and as short a growing season as possible, so we wanted to see if the tip of the bean really achieves a shorter growing season and how the measure itself affects the quality and quantity of the crop. The experiment was set on November 8, 2018 in the unheated greenhouse of the laboratory field of the Department of Agronomy at the Biotechnical Faculty in Ljubljana. The area was divided into 12 equal plots and sown on two varieties of faba beans 'Dreifach Weiße' and 'Aguadulce Supersimonia'. 30 seeds were sown on a single plot at a distance of 15 x 20 cm. Half of the plot of each variety was patchy and half was left unpaved. Two rows in each plot were designated for harvesting at waxy maturity, and the remaining three were left for final dry grain harvesting. We harvested the wax grains three times: 14.5.2019, 30.5.2019 and 12.6.2019, while the dry grains were picked on 2.7.2019. When harvesting, we first picked the pods and weighed them, weighed them, then we shelled them, weighed the mass of grains and also counted them. In both species, when harvested in dry and waxy maturity, better results were achieved with bud removed plants. Waxy maturity-tip: weight of branches: 5691 g, number of branches: 266, number of grains: 867, weight of grains: 1673 g. Waxy maturity with no bud removed: weight of experts: 7375 g, number of experts: 350, number of grains: 1134, weight of grains: 2081 g.
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