TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cuckoorani M
AU  - Usha C Thomas (Guide)
TI  - Organic nutrient scheduling in soilless vegetable cultivation
U1  - 630 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Vellayani
PB  - Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture
KW  - Agronomy
N1  - MSc
N2  - An investigation entitled 'Organic nutrient scheduling in soil less vegetable cultivation' 
has been carried out at College of Agriculture, Vellayani during October 2012- June 2013. The 
main objectives of the study were to standardize soil less media and nutrient schedule for 
vegetable production (grown in containers) .and to work out the economics of different 
treatments. The clop selected for the study was bhindi var- Varsha Uphar and the study 
comprised of two pot culture experiments. 
First experiment was to standardize growth media for soil less culture. The experiment 
was laid out in Completely Randomized Block Design with seven treatments and three 
replications. Treatments consists of seven media: - coir pith + FYM (1: 1), coir pith + FYM 
(1 :2), coir pith compost + FYM (1: 1), coir pith compost + FYM (2: 1), coir pith compost alone, 
compressed coir pith (neo peat) and potting mixture (1: 1: 1 soil, sand and FYM).The best media 
from this study was selected for Part II study. 
The results of the study showed that different growth media had significant influence on 
growth and yield characters of bhindi. Coir pith compost + FYM (2: 1) recorded maximum yield 
and B:C ratio. The effect of this media was on par with potting mixture. Hence Coir pith 
compost + FYM (2: 1) was selected for the part II study. 
Second experiment was to standardize nutrient schedule for soil less bhindi .The design 
was Completely Randomized Block Design with six treatment combinations and four 
replications. Treatments comprised of three nutrient levels - package of practices recommendations 
, 
(POP) as organic, 75 % of POP as organic and 125 % of POP as organic and two methods of 
application for top dressing- direct application to growth media and foliar application. 
125 % of POP as organic recorded significantly higher plant height, number of leaves, 
LAI, flowers/ plant, root characters, water use efficiency, nutrient uptake and yield (283.412 g 
/pot). Direct application to growth media was better than foliar application in terms of fruit 
length, fruit yield, root length and WUE. 
Direct application of 100 % of POP as organic in the growth media is the most economic 
treatment (B: C ratio-3.12). 


UR  - http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810110517
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