Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
Naik KM, Bhosale AM, Bansod VU and Dapurkar ND

Abstract:
An experiment was carried out to work out the effect of 28-Homobrassinolide (0.50 and 0.75 ppm), CPPU (4 and 6 ppm), GA₃ (50 and 100 ppm), Humic Acid (1 and 2%) and Bio-mix (50, 75 and 100 ml/plant) on plant growth and fruit parameters of sapota cv. Kalipatti and observed significantly highest plant height (m), plant canopy diameter (m), lowest peel weight (g) and highest peel to pulp ratio with the application of GA₃ @ 100 ppm (T₈). The significant result in fruit parameters like the highest fruit weight (g), length of fruits (cm), diameter of fruits (cm), pulp weight (g) was recorded in the application of CPPU @ 6 ppm. However, the application of 28-Homobrassinolide @ 0.75 ppm (T₂) reported lowest fruit firmness and minimum days required for ripening of fruits after harvesting. The treatments reported non-significant effect on number of seeds per fruit and weight of seeds per fruits of sapota.