Vol. 8, Issue 4 (2019)

Author(s):
Sangeeta Chandrakar, Prabhakar Singh, Hemant Kumar Panigrahi and Ankit Kumar Pandey

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted to study the response of foliar spray of micro-nutrients on number of flowers, fruits and yield per plant of strawberry cv. Nabila under net tunnel with different concentration of micro-nutrient spray as treatments and replicated thrice in a Randomized Completely Block Design. The treatment consisted ten different concentrations of calcium and micro-nutrients along with recommended dose of fertilizers viz. T₀: RDF + control (Water spray), T₁: RDF + CaCl₂ @ 0.4%, T₂: RDF + CaCl₂ @ 0.6%, T₃: RDF + CaCl₂ @ 0.8%, T₄: RDF + ZnSO₄ @ 0.4%, T₅: RDF + ZnSO₄ @ 0.6%, T₆: RDF + ZnSO₄ @ 0.8%, T₇: RDF + FeSO₄ @ 0.4%, T₈: RDF + FeSO₄ @ 0.6% and T₉: RDF + FeSO₄ @ 0.8%. The data revealed that the maximum number of flowers per plant and maximum number of fruits per plant were recorded under the treatment T₅ (RDF + ZnSO₄ @ 0.6%) whereas the minimum was recorded under the treatment T₀ (RDF + water spray). As regard the yield, highest yield (1.17 kg/plant) was obtained under the treatment RDF + ZnSO₄ @ 0.6% followed by treatment RDF + FeSO₄ @ 0.6% and minimum yield was found under control (T₀).