Vol. 12, Issue 8 (2023)

Author(s):
Akash Jadhav, RD Pawar, SS Dhumal, VK Garande, AS Bagade, SA Sarvade and US Shinde

Abstract:
An investigation to study the effect of different training systems on growth and yield of cucumber under naturally ventilated polyhouse was conducted during summer season, 2018 at the Instructional-cum-Research Farm of Horticulture Section, Rajarshee Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj College of Agriculture, Kolhapur. The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design with three replications of eight treatments (training systems) viz., overhead trellis, trellis with three wire, single stem staking, nylon netting, hanger system, ‘V’ system, trellis with two wire and untrained control. The spacing adopted was 60 cm × 60 cm. The single stem staking treatment was found as the best training system in cucumber which recorded significant increase in number of fruits per vine (19.47), individual fruit weight (133.67 g), maximum vine length (446.53 cm at final harvest), harvest duration (38.67 days), fruit yield per vine (2.183 kg) and per 100 m² (611.246 kg) with a minimum internodal length (4.27 cm), while training on nylon netting recorded significantly longer (17.47 cm) fruits. The incidence of white fly and leaf miner was less in single stem staking while the lowest incidence of aphids was recorded in overhead trellis.