Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Suhail Ahsan, AR Malik, Reyaz Ahmad Bhat, Waseem Yousuf Mir, Asim Bashir, Sehrish Rasool, Syed Mazahir Hussain and Yasir Ayoub

Abstract:
An experiment was carried out in controlled conditions at the Division of Fruit Science during the year 2018. The investigation involved 20 treatment combinations laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD), having three replications. All soil less substrates significantly increased TSS, Total sugars, reducing sugars, non-reducing sugars and ascorbic acid content except M₁ (Sand). The mean maximum TSS (8.77 ⁰Brix), total sugars (6.60%), reducing sugars (4.43%), non-reducing sugar (2.16%), ascorbic acid (25.27 mg/100 gm.) and organoleptic rating (4.02) were recorded from the plants grown on substrate M₂(coco-peat),whereas, mean minimum TSS (7.22⁰B), Total sugars (4.09%), reducing sugars (3.16%), non-reducing sugars (0.93%) and ascorbic acid (21.35 mg/100 gm.) were recorded in M₁(Sand). Among different varieties studied, Kimberly recorded mean maximum TSS (8.16 ⁰B), total sugars (5.68%), reducing sugars (4.05%) and ascorbic acid (38.90 mg/100 g) content. Substrate coco-peat and variety Kimberly is the best for the soil less production, system of the strawberry in the passively ventilated green-house condition.