The plant needs to maintain a correct vegetative-productive balance to achieve a yield with satisfactory quality parameters, reduce entry into the field and express good production potential.

A plant can be defined in a vegetative-productive balance when the production load is well supported by an adequate vegetative development. An imbalance can cause less fruit set, increase shading by slowing down ripening, increase susceptibility to pathogens, decrease the quality of the harvest and increase harvest times for some crops. It can also increase susceptibility to abiotic stress, decrease the fertility of the buds for the following year in fruit trees, and cause incomplete ripening.