Rootstocks and twig topping intensity at winter pruning for ‘Maciel’ peach three

Winter pruning has been a common practice in peach. Twig topping associated with it, but this used at the same intensity, regardless of cultivar. Therefore, study aimed evaluating productive behavior and quality ‘Maciel’ peach grafted on ‘Capdeboscq’ ‘Okinawa’ (P. persica) as rootstocks, when they were submitted to different twig intensities winter pruning. The following three evaluated: short pruning, 2/3 was removed; long 1/3 no topping, twigs kept integral. Effective fructification is lower trees are it leads fruit higher weight flesh firmness, besides larger diameters. Pruning increased number yield per tree. Not only weight, diameter soluble solid content, also tree affected by ‘Okinawa’, intensity throughout Higher concentration solids found peaches Okinawa. While highest production verified use rootstock.