“…In edible cultivars, the nutritional stage, type, seedling weight and planting time are factors that interfere in the response of plants to floral induction (Reinhardt et al, 2018). In addition, it is clear that the response to natural or artificial induction is generally determined by the age and size of the plant, as well as by environmental factors in the growing region (Cunha, 2009;Fernandes et al, 2018;Ribeiro et al, 2019).…”