Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
Netra Pal Yadav, Vijay Bahadur, Nikhil Vikram Singh and Gyanendra Singh

Abstract:
The Vegetable Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology & Science, Prayagraj, (U.P.) - 211007 conducted an investigation titled "Effect of foliar spray of Brassinosteroids, Salicylic acid, and Gibberellic acid on the fruit yield and yield traits of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L) cv. Arpit." The experiment used a Randomized Block Design with 15 treatments and three replications, each of which was reproduced three times. Source of variables were Brassinosteroids (BR) 0.05 PPM, Brassinosteroids (BR) 0.10 PPM, Brassinosteroids (BR) 0.5 PPM, Brassinosteroids (BR) 1.0 PPM, Brassinosteroids (BR) 2.0 PPM, Salicylic acid (SA) 0.05 mM, Salicylic acid (SA) 0.10mM, Salicylic acid (SA) 0.2mM, Salicylic acid (SA) 0.5mM, Salicylic acid (SA) 1.0mM, Gibberellic acid (GA3) 25 PPM, Gibberellic acid (GA3) 50 PPM, Gibberellic acid(GA3) 100 PPM, Gibberellic acid (GA3) 150 PPM and combination of them with control treatment taken as 15 treatments. The treatment with T₅ (Brassinosteroid 2.0 ppm) has recorded the minimum days taken to first fruit picking (49.55 days and 48.39 days) and the maximum number of fruit per plant (9.17 and 9.79), yield per plant (1.79 kg and 2.15 kg) and fruit yield (49.72 t/ha. and 56.74 t/ha.) and whereas the treatment T₁₀ (Salicylic acid 1.0mM) recorded the maximum diameter of fruits (4.56cm and 6.81cm), Length of fruits (21.10cm and 20.19cm), Weight of fruits (203.84 g and 223.84 g) were recorded in successive both years and minimum yield and yield traits were observed in T₀ (control).