Vol. 10, Issue 12 (2021)

Author(s):
Sathish BR, Yallesh Kumar HS, Ganapathi M, Sridhar R and Narayana Swamy M

Abstract:
The present study was conducted to know the effect of post shooting bunch management practices like bunch feeding and bunch spraying on Post-harvest quality of tissue culture banana cv. Ney poovan. The distal stalk of banana bunches were fed with different nutrient sources like urea, sulphate of potash, banana special and organic formulations like panchagavya and amritpani. The bunch spraying was done with 2,4-D (30 ppm). The results revealed that bunch feeding with urea (7.5g)+ SOP(7.5g) along with bunch spraying with 2,4, -D (30 ppm)has recorded significantly more green life (5.90 days), shelf life (7.52 days), peel weight (73.80 g), pulp weight (11.00 g), pulp to peel ratio (6.78), dry weight (23.59 g) and lowest PLW (12.70%).Whereas bunch feeding with SOP(7.5g) and banana special (0.2%) along with bunch spraying with 2,4, -D (30 ppm)has recorded significantly higher total soluble solids (23.80 ⁰Brix), reducing sugar (18.35%), non-reducing sugar (3.35%), total sugar (21.70%), sugar to acid ratio (89.18%), ascorbic acid (0.89 mg/ 100g),lower fruit cracking (3.30%)and lowest titratable acidity (0.24%)as compare to control (without bunch feeding and bunch spraying).