Vol. 11, Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
Ajaz A Malik and SA Shameem

Abstract:
The present investigation was conducted at experimental field of Division of Vegetable Sciences, SKUAST-Kashmir to assess the influence of pruning systems on growth, yield, and quality of capsicum (Capsicum spp. L) under protected conditions of Kashmir valley. The trail was carried out in capsicum with three varieties namely Indra (V1) Bomby(V2) and Orobelle (V3) and two systems of pruning namely P_o (no pruning) and P₁ (pruning to four stems treatments) consisting of six treatments T₁ =PoV₁, T₂= PoV₂, T3= PoV₃, T₄= P₁V₁, T₅= P₁V₂ and T₆ = P₁V₃, replicated thrice with Randomized Block Design. Pooled analysis of two years revealed that amongst the treatments, treatment T₄ (P1V1) recorded maximum values of plant height (149.81cm), no. of leaves per plant (102.03), leaf area (165.10 cms), no. of fruits per plant ^-1 (20.90), fruit yield per plot (17.18 kg plot^-1) and fruit yield per hectare (542.13 q ha^-1) which was significantly superior to rest of other treatments but at par to treatments T₃, T₅ and T₆ in case of no. of leaves per plant and to treatment T1 in case of fruit number per plant. Further it was also observed that maximum quality parameters as T.SS Brix0 (8.05), Vitamin C content (223.61 mg/100 gm) and Protein content (1.11%) were found maximum with treatment T4 also which was significantly superior to all other treatments but at par toT₁, T₂, T₅ and T₆ in case of T.S.S and to T₁, T₅ and T₆ in case of Vitamin C content respectively.