EFFECT OF USING PLASTIC MULCH ON CANTALOUPE PLANTS GROWN UNDER PLASTIC HOUSE AND LOW TUNNELS DURING AUTUMN AND EARLY SUMMER PLANTATION | ||
| Journal of Plant Production | ||
| Article 26, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2003, Pages 537-545 PDF (2.63 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jpp.2003.242171 | ||
| Author | ||
| N. M.T. Kabil, | ||
| Veg. Res. Oep. Hort. Res. Ins., Agric Res. Center | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Two field experiments were carried out at Kaha Vegetable Station, Horticulture Research Institute under the condition of Plastic house and low tunnels plantation during autumn and early summer seasons of 1997 and 1998 to study the effect of covering the soil with clear or black plastic mulch comparing with unmulching on the productivity of cantaloupe plants. It was found that clear plastic rnutch then black mulching induced obvious increment in vegetative growth as well as earliness of flowering comparing with the control (unmulched). Concerning fruit yield, it was found that clear plastic mulch increased fruit yield under low tunnels at early summer plantation, while under Height tunnels 0 r Plastic house during a utumn black plastic mulch was the superior on fruit yield. It was found also that, clear plastic mulch enhanced some fruit characteristics such as total soluble solids as well as total carotene while total acidity did not affected. Generally it can said that mulching the soil under low tunnels in early summer with clear plastic and under height tunnels in autumn with black plastic induced significant increment in cantaloupe fruit yield, while clear plastic mulch was the superior for enhancing total soluble solids and total carotene concentration in cantaloupe fruits. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| cantaloupe production using mulching under low tunnels and Height; Plastic Tunnels | ||
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