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 fruit drop, 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 fruit drop, 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 combination 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 fruit drop, yield and quality parameter on manimum fruit drop per cent (35.81(36.76)*, Number of fruits per plant (987),Fruit yield per plant (45.70 kg), TSS (8.73⁰) and Acidity (5.54%), TSS: Acid ratio (1.28), Ascorbic acid (30.14mg) 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.