Table 4. Simple correlation coefficients between time of pruning and shoot characteristics.

	Time of pruning	Length of shoot	Diameter of shoot	No. of shoot leaves	Weight	No. of thorn under the shoot
Time of pruning	1	−0.407**z	−0.566**	−0.478**	−0.607**	0.412**
Length of shoot		1	0.697**	0.395**	0.791**	−0.382**
Diameter of shoot			1	0.738**	0.935**	−0.337**
No. of shoot leaves				1	0.681**	−0.309**
Weight					1	−0.410**
No. of thorn under the shoot						1

Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level.