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- Title
EFFECT OF FOLIAR APPLICATION OF HUMIC ACID AND SEAWEED EXTRACT IN STRAWBERRY (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.).
- Authors
Chakraborty, B.; Basak, S.; Sherpa, Z. W.; Samanta, D.; Apoorva, N. D.; Gurung, S.
- Abstract
The investigation was carried out to evaluate the effect of foliar application of humic acid (HA) and seaweed extract (SWE) on growth, yield and quality in two cultivars (Camarosa and Nabila) of strawberry. The HA and SWE were applied as foliar sprays individually (1.0 ml l-1 and 2.0 ml l-1) as well as in combination to the strawberry plants starting from one month after planting of uniform runners upto 120 days after planting at 15 days interval. The plants which received foliar spraying of water were treated as control. There were total nine treatments, which were replicated thrice under factorial randomized block design. The results indicated that foliar spraying of 2.0 ml l-1 HA + 1.0 ml l-1 SWE significantly increased the plant spread, number of leaves, number of crowns, leaf area, length of petiole, number of flowers, number of fruits, fruit weight, length of fruits and fruit yield over control plants. However, fruits with significantly the highest total soluble solid, ascorbic acid, total sugar content were recorded with the foliar application of 2.0 ml l-1 HA + 2.0 ml l-1 SWE. This treatment also found to be the best for producing the lowest acidic fruits. Among the strawberry cultivars, the performance of Camarosa in respect of fruit yield and quality was better than Nabila.
- Subjects
FOLIAR feeding; HUMIC acid; STRAWBERRIES; VITAMIN C; FRUIT weights &; measures
- Publication
Plant Archives (09725210), 2023, Vol 23, Issue 2, p68
- ISSN
0972-5210
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.51470/PLANTARCHIVES.2023.v23.no2.012