Vol. 11, Issue 1 (2022)

Author(s):
S Mounika, M Padma, M Raj Kumar, KB Suneetha Devi and S Narender Reddy

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted to find out the effect of planting dates and plant density on yield parameters of Abelmoschus moschatus. The experiment was laid out in a split plot design with 16 treatments in Kharif replicated thrice. The treatments included four plant densities S₁ (50 × 20 cm), S₂ (50 × 50 cm), S₃ (60 × 40 cm) and S₄ (60 × 50 cm) at four dates of sowing in Kharif i.e., D₁ (June 1^st), D₂ (July 1^st), D₃ (August 1^st), D₄ (September 1^st). The results indicated that T₄ (D₁ + S₄) recorded a significantly maximum pod length (9.15), maximum pod diameter (2.81), number of seeds per pod (102.31), seed weight per pod (1.25) and test weight (1.51) over other treatments, T₁ (D₁ + S₁) June 1^st sown crop with spacing S₁ (50 cm) recorded maximum seed yield per hectare (25.05) (q) whereas T₁₃ (D₄ + S₁) recorded the minimum pod length (7.39), pod diameter (2.15), number of seeds per pod (87.25), seed weight per pod (0.97), test weight (1.23), as compared to the other treatments during Kharif.