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- Title
Containers and doses of controlled release fertilizer in the production of radish in a protected environment.
- Authors
dos Santos Viana, Caris; de Almeida Guimarães, Marcelo; Rubio Ruiz, Santiago; Alves de Araújo Hendges, Ana Régia; Lemos Neto, Hozano de Souza; de Jesus Tello, Jean Paulo
- Abstract
The cultivation of radish has aroused interest on the part of agricultural producers, but it is still necessary to develop and improve management practices that allow greater production and quality of tubers. In this sense, the objective of this work was to evaluate the growth and production of radishes cultivated in containers of different volumes, filled with substrate enriched with increasing doses of controlled release fertilizer (CRF), in a protected environment of the screened type. The research was carried out in the Didactic Garden of the Federal University of Ceará. The experimental design used was in randomized blocks, in a split-plot scheme, with three replicates. The plots were constituted by the volumes of containers (31 and 100 cm3 cell-1) and the subplots by the fertilization doses (0, 4, 8, 12 kg m-3 or g l-1). The number of leaves, plant height, fresh and dry mass of the shoot, leaf area, chlorophyll 'a' and 'b', tuber length and diameter, fresh and dry mass of the tuber and yield were evaluated. Plants cultivated in a 100 cm3 container showed the highest values for all variables and increasing doses of CRF resulted in an increase in radish growth and production. It's concluded that is possible to produce radish in containers filled with substrate enriched with CRF under protected cultivation conditions of the screened type.
- Subjects
CONTROLLED release of fertilizers; RADISHES; AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATED plants; SUBSTRATES (Materials science); LEAF area; TUBERS
- Publication
Comunicata Scientiae, 2023, Vol 14, p1
- ISSN
2176-9079
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14295/CS.v14.4106