Vol. 7, Issue 8, Part I (2024)
Abstract
The experiment was conducted at Department of Horticulture, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj during the rabi season 2023 - 2024. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with three replications, and the study consists of thirteen treatment combinations including control. The best treatment was T12 (NPK-25 g/m² + micronutrients -4 g/L) which shows highest values in all the parameters viz., plant height (cm) 120 DAS (59.56 cm ), number of leaves/plant 120 DAS (67.56), number of branches/plant 120 DAS (12.53), days of 50% flowering (71.93), days to first flowering (55.81), days of first harvesting (110.60), no. of flower/cluster (7.49) , no. of fruiting cluster/plant (6.44), no. of fruits/cluster (6.53) fruit set% (86.87%), fruit weight (61.18 g), no. of fruit/plant (106.19), fruit yield per plant (2.02 kg), fruit yield/ha (13.18 t/ha), TSS (5.20 °brix), Lycopene content (6.43 100mg/kg), Hardness (0.82 kg/inch2), Vitamin C content (35.33 mg/1000 gm). Increased flowering, fruit yield and quality might be due to the increased absorption of nutrients when given as foliar application.
