Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 21, No 1 (2008)

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Influence of Spacing and Pruning on Yield of Tomato Grown Under Shade House

S.M. Mantur, Sateesh R. Patil

Abstract


Tomato variety Himsona was grown under 50 per cent shade house during summer and kharif season of 2005-06 at College of Agriculture, Bijapur. Planting was done in two rows on 1m wide bed leaving 50cm path between two beds following the spacing of 60cmX30cm (S1), 60cmX45cm (S2) and 60cmX60cm (S3) with side branches pruned (P1) and without pruned (P0).  The data was analysed statistically following factorial randomized block design.  The results revealed that the average fruit weight was significantly more in S3 during both the seasons and also the mean of two seasons (72.50 g) compared to S1 and S2. The pruning treatment recorded significantly higher average fruit weight during both the seasons and two seasons mean was also significantly superior in pruning treatment (74. 32g)  compared to without pruning (60.83g).  The fruit yield per plant was significantly more in S3 during both the seasons and the mean yield of two seasons was also maximum in S3 (3.67 kg) compared to other treatments.  The fruit yield per plant was significantly more with pruning during summer and kharif  and similarly the pooled data of two seasons was also found significantly maximum in pruned plants (3.02 kg) compared to without pruning (2.80 kg).   The significantly higher yield per m2 was recorded in S2 and it was on par with S1 and least yield was recorded in S3 during both the seasons. With mean yield of two seasons also S2 (8.67 kg/m2) and S1 (8.64 kg/m2)  were on par and were significantly superior over S3 (7.94 kg/m2).  The pruning treatment recorded a higher two seasons mean yield ( 8.78 kg/m2) compared to without pruning(8.05 kg/m2).

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