Vol. 12, Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
Saransh Saxena, Priyamvada Sonkar and Ekta Rajput

Abstract:
The investigation was carried out at Instructional cum Research Fruit Orchard, Department of Fruit Science, K.N.K. College of Horticulture, Mandsaur (MP), during November, 2019 to January, 2020. The treatments comprised of pre harvest spraying of CaCl_2, Ascorbic acid and bagging with Brown paper and yellow colour polythene to study with quality improvement of guava fruit. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design with three replications. Treatment CaCl₂ @ 2% with Brown paper (T₁₁) fruit bagging showed significant effects on different parameters studied. It was observed that the maximum acidity (0.57%) was recorded in treatment T₀ (control), while maximum total soluble solids (⁰B) (11.50), TSS: acidity ratio (26.63), ascorbic acid content (192.39 mg/100 g pulp), pectin content (1.05 %), pH (4.73), Chlorophyll content in leaves (46.10 SPAD value) were recorded with the treatment CaCl₂ @ 2% with Brown paper (T₁₁).