Time and technique of green pruning 'Charme' peaches to obtain quality fruits

One of the management techniques that aim to improve quality fruits is green pruning, which main purpose increase penetration light in crown, favoring pigmentation, thus improving flavor fruits. However, it not always done, since requires labor. The objective this work was evaluate time and way Management as well practice thinning associated with order obtain high peaches from ‘Charme’ cultivar. carried out a commercial orchard Dois Vizinhos (PR) municipality, three productive cycles. A completely randomized design used, 3 x bifactorial scheme (green pruning technique), 4 replications two plants per experimental unit. times or bending were third, fourth fifth weeks before harvest. first remove vertical branches facing center canopy base tree reference broken poorly ones and, second belding these. capacity physicochemical characteristics evaluated peach only presented improvements third year its realization.