Quantification of yield and fruit quality of Cucumis melo (rock melon) with different saline fertigation rates in the greenhouse
2008
Azhar K. | Izyani R. | Nazrul R. | Armizatul S. A. H | Mohd Aziz R.
The yield and fruit quality of rock melon cultivar 'Glamour' with three treatments of saline fertigation stages had been studied under green house condition. About 360 melon seeds were sown in direct-seeded. The fertigation salinity started from 1.0dS m-¹ and gradually increased to 2.0dS m-¹ before treatment. The treatments were imposed to the plants on days after sowing (DAS) 50 (in fruiting time). The three levels of treatment imposed were 2.0, 2.5 (control) and 3.0dS m-¹ . All plants were irrigated for 1.5 L in four times per day (8.30am, II.30am, 2.30pm and 4.30 pm). The experiment lasted for a period of 100 DAS. In this study, fruit weights of two maintained fruits per plant with Total Soluble Solid (TSS), plant dry weight and total leaf area were determined. The highest salinity treatment (3.0dSm-¹) showed the lowest total leaf area (96.58cm2), total leafdrymass (57. 79g) and mean fruit weight(1.39kg) but gave the highest mean of Total Soluble Solid (12.38 at °Brix 20). Increasing fertigation salinity would increase TSS but decrease the fruit yield, total leaf area and total leaf drymass. SAS analysis gives insignificant differences to plants' growth, fruit yield and TSS.
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