Effect of plant geometry and fertigation on growth and yield of cherry tomato (Solanum lycopersiconvar.cerasiforme) under zero energy polyhouse conditions

Influence of Spacing and Pruning on Growth Characteristics, Yield and Economics of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Grown Under Protected Environment

“…This could be due to increased uptake of more nutrients and buildup of sufficient photosynthates enabling the increase in size of fruits (length and breadth), ultimately resulted in the increase fruit size. The results are in conformity with the findings of Kirimi et al, (2011) and Bhattarai et al, (2015). Highest fruit yield/m 2 area (12.0 kg/m 2 ) was resulted with the closer spacing of 70 × 30 cm with 2 stems pruning (G 1 ) and lowest (7.1 kg/m 2 ) with the wider spacing at 70 × 60 cm with 3 stems pruning (G 2 ) ( Table 2).…”

Effect of Spacing and Training on Vegetative Growth Characteristics and Yield of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Grown in Polyhouse

“…This may be due to the availability of more space for individual plant growth, more leaf area, ample sun light and aeration under wider spacing. These findings were in conformity with the work of Bhattarai et al, (2015) and Singh and Kumar (2005) in cherry tomato. Among the method of training, the maximum stem diameter (7.36 cm) and number of branches per plant (24.53) were recorded in treatment T 3 (triple stem training).…”

“…This might be due to more fruit set, more photosynthesis as it produces more plant height at wider spacing. Similar trend was observed by Mantur and Patil (2008), Bhattarai et al, (2015) and Rajendra et al, (2013) in tomato. Maximum number of fruits per cluster (6.31) at wider spacing S 4 (60 cm x 60 cm) and minimum in close spacing (45 cm x 30 cm).…”

Effect of plant geometry on growth and yield of capsicum under open ventilated poly house

“…The result of the experiment is in agreement with the findings of Edgar et al (2017) [2] , who also recorded the highest yield of capsicum with the closest plant density. Similar, results were also reported by Rodriguez et al (2008) [6] and Manchanda et al (1988) [4] in capsicum and Bhattarai et al (2015) [1] in cherry tomato.…”