Vol. 11, Issue 3 (2022)

Author(s):
Balbir Kumar Verma, Muneshwar Prasad, Vikash Kumar, Anupam Adarsh and Ghanshyam Thakur

Abstract:
The influence of potassium nitrate and urea phosphate on blooming, fruiting, and quality of cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana L.) viz. Sel-VK-601 was investigated using a randomized block design with seven treatments and three replications. The treatments had a significant impact on plant height (147.67 cm), inter nodal length (18.66 cm), number of branches per plant (17.78), time span of appearance of 50% flowering (92.56), bud break to full bloom (11.56), and duration of fruit set to maturity (73.78) when sprayed with Urea phosphate @ 1.5 percent. With the application of KNO₃ @ 1.5 percent, plant girth (5.60 cm), number of flower per shoot (11.89), number of fruit set per plant (137.67), fruit weight (9.59 g), fruit length (27.36), fruit width (27.12), and number of fruit per plant (88.00) were measured. As a result of the overall findings of this study, it can be concluded that increasing the concentration with an adequate dose of urea phosphate and KNO₃ increases the vegetative development and yield of Cape gooseberry.