TAILIEUCHUNG - Effect of soil working techniques on moisture conservation, growth, yield and fruit cracking of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) cv. Kandhari

An experiment on soil working techniques like CBOC (crescent bund with open catchment pits), mulching and pre-harvest spray of forchlorfenuron and boron was carried out on seven-year-old plants of pomegranate cultivar Kandhari trained as four stems grown under rainfed conditions of Himachal Pradesh. Experimental plants were subjected to 11 treatments, viz., mulching, CBOC, CPPU (forchlorfenuron) at 5 or 10 ppm, H3BO3 at or , mulching + CPPU at 5 ppm or H3BO3 at , CBOC + CPPU at 5 ppm or H3BO3 at and control. These treatments were applied in mid-March (soil working techniques) and mid-May (forchlorfenuron and boron). Between the two applied soil working techniques, crescent bund with open catchments pits conserved higher soil moisture content at all the observation dates than mulching. Growth parameters like plant height, plant spread, trunk girth and annual shoot growth were observed significantly higher under the treatment CBOC + H 3BO3 at due to higher moisture availability. However, leaf area and leaf chlorophyll content were recorded significantly higher under the treatment CBOC + CPPU at 5 ppm. | Effect of soil working techniques on moisture conservation, growth, yield and fruit cracking of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) cv. Kandhari

• Sinh học
• Soil working techniques
• Crescent bund with open catchment pits
• Soil moisture conservation
• Fruit cracking
• Yield and fruit cracking
• Planting methods
• Growth performance
• Fruit plants
• Shelfed trench pit