Vol. 10, Issue 11 (2021)

Author(s):
PV Sawale, MB Patil, AR Tummod and SB Pavhane

Abstract:
The present investigation entitled “Studies on effect of nutrients on fruitdrop, yield and quality of acid lime” was conducted at Sweet Orange Research Station, Badnapur. The objective of this experiment was to study the effect nutrients on fruitdrop, yield and quality of acid lime. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with three replication and 9 treatments. Comprising spraying of along with nutrients of T₁- Urea @ 1%, T₂-Urea @ 1.5%, T₃-Borax 0.5%, T₄- Borax 0.6% ,T₅- Zinc sulphate@ 0.4%, T₆- Zinc sulphate0.5%,T₇- nutrients com bination of both i.e. Urea@ 1% +Borax @0.5%+Zinc sulphate@ 0.4%, T₈-Urea@ 1.5% +Borax@ 0.6%+Zinc Sulphate @0.5, T₉- Control. The observations on growth & physical attributes parameter on maximum plant height (0.20m), plant spread (0.87m), number of flowers per plant (1748.45), Fruit set (64.06%), fruit length (4.8 cm), fruit diameter (4.52cm), fruit weight (54.76 gm), fruit volume (56.7ml), peelthickness (1.20mm) was recorded with foliar application of T₈-Urea@ 1.5% +Borax@ 0.6%+Zinc Sulphate @0.5. However, the minimum values of all attributes were recorded under the T9- Control.