Vol. 11, Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
OS Warang and NI Shah

Abstract:
An experiment was carried out to find out the effects of round the year pruning and fertilizer doses on physico-chemical parameters of phalsa cv. Local during the years 2020-21 and 2021-22. The experiment consist of two factors one is pruning time (P₁= 1^st week of January (Control), P₂= 1^st week of March, P₃= 1^st week of May, P₄= 1^st week of July, P₅= 1^st week of September and P₆= 1^st week of November) and second is fertilizer doses (F₁= 100:50:50 g NPK/plant (Control), F₂= 200:75:75 g NPK/plant, F₃= 300:100:100 g NPK/plant). The experiment was laid out in completely randomized design (Factorial) with three repetitions. The treatment of pruning in 1^st week of January (Control) (P₁) reported maximum weight of 100 fruits, juice content, total soluble solids, reducing sugars, total sugars, and ascorbic acid and minimum seed content, seed: juice ratio and acidity of phalsa fruit. The fertilizer treatment F₂ (200:75:75 g NPK/plant) recorded maximum weight of 100 fruits, juice content, total soluble solids, reducing sugars, total sugars, and ascorbic acid of phalsa fruits. The treatment F₁ [100:50:50 g NPK/plant (Control)] registered the minimum acidity of phalsa fruits. The pruning in 1^st week of January with fertilizer application of 200:75:75 g NPK/plant improve the physico-chemical parameters of the phalsa.