PROSPECTS FOR A MODIFIED CULTURAL SYSTEM FOR STRAWBERRY NURSERIES IN RELATION TO, SUBSEQUENT FRUIT PRODUCTION UNDER LOW PLASTIC TUNNELS: 1- NUMBER AND QUALITY OF TRANSPLANTS | ||||
| Journal of Plant Production | ||||
| Article 21, Volume 28, Issue 7, July 2003, Page 5609-5620 PDF (1.65 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jpp.2003.252521 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| M. E. Ragab, | ||||
| Horticulture Department, Fac. of Agric., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This study was carried out at the Strawberry and Non- Traditional Crops Research Station, Nobaria, 8ehaira Governorate during the two successive seasons 2000 and 2001. The aim of this study was to investigate the eHects of cultivar, nursery planting system and mother plant spacing on number and quality of transplants. Results indicate that using Sweet Charlie cultivar resulted in significant increases in number of fresh transplants dug in September as well as dormant ones dug in January. The results of the two studied seasons indicated that planting nursery stock plants (Super Elite) on raised beds was responsible for significant increases in number of total and marketable fresh transplants used for fresh plantations, crown diameter of transplant and number of dormant transplants used for frigo plantations. Increasing plant spacing (low population of nursery stock plants) was responsible for increasing marketable fresh transplants as well as transplant diameter as compared with those of high mother plant population. In this connection, increasing mother plant density resulted in significant increases in total number of fresh and dormant transplants. The lowest plant spacing for Sweet Charlie as well as Camarosa gave the highest number of fresh and dormant transplants. On the other hand, the best treatment combination which produced the highest number of marketable fresh transplants as well as the biggest crown diameter was the widest plant spacing (2m) with Sweet Charlie or Camarosa. As for number of marketable and total fresh transplants, Sweet Charlie planted 0 n raised bed system at t he largest plant distance showed the highest values in addition to Camarosa cultivar, planted on raised beds at the largest two plant distances in the second season. Planting nursery stock plants on raised beds caused significant increments in dry weight of leaves, crown and roots and carbohydrate content in roots and crowns of the produced transplants in the two years except carbohydrates content in crowns In the second season. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Strawberry. Nursery. Raised beds. Crown diameter. Carbohydrates | ||||
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