Vol. 6, Issue 6 (2018)
Effect of various organic inputs on growth and its attributes of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cv. GS-600 under polyhouse condition
Author(s): Pooshpendra Singh Dixit, VM Prasad, Saurabh Kasera and Shivendra Singh
Abstract: An investigation was carried out at Research Field, Department of Horticulture, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj during Rabi season of 2017-18, to assess the effect of various organic inputs on growth and its attributes of tomato under polyhouse condition. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with 10 treatments replicated thrice. The treatments consisted of different combinations of organic manures i.e., FYM, Vermicompost and Poultry manure. The data were collected from five randomly selected plant of each treatment and subjected to statistical analysis. The results reflected that among 10 treatments under study, treatment T6 (Vermicompost 50% + Poultry manure 50%) was best in all characters and recorded maximum @ 30, 60, 90 and 120 DAT in term of plant height (56.68cm, 94.99cm, 199.44cm and 250.31cm, respectively), No. of branches per plant (6.00, 8.47, 15.47 and 25.93, respectively) and No. of leaves per plant (6.93, 12.67, 23.53 and 36.07, respectively); and better vegetative growth promoted the flowering by producing more clusters per plant with the application of Vermicompost 50% + Poultry manure 50% in treatment T6 which were significantly highest in terms of number of clusters per plant (7.60), number of flowers per cluster (9.01) and number of flowers per plant (56.61); whereas similar trend was closely followed by the treatment T7 (25% Vermicompost + 75% Poultry manure) for these traits, while the constantly lower performance in similar growth and flowering traits at all growth stages was recorded with treatment T0 (Control). These findings are reliable for enhancing organic tomato production under protected cultivation.
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Pooshpendra Singh Dixit, VM Prasad, Saurabh Kasera, Shivendra Singh. Effect of various organic inputs on growth and its attributes of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cv. GS-600 under polyhouse condition. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(6):2537-2539.
