An experiment was conducted at Al-Kufa Technical Institute during the season of 2009.
In the open field.
The experiment included( 6) treatments which are the interaction between two factors (withou
apex removal (V1)and apex removal (V2)and three training methods(on one stem( T1) on two stems (T2) and on three stems( T3) respectively.
The aim of the experiment was to study the apex removal and training methods on growth and yield and some chemical characters of tomato plant cv."Tropic" that grown under field conditions..
Results showed that, the highest value for plant length was obtained from the interaction of(V1T1)that reached 96.0. cm ,Meanwhile (V2T3)gave the lowest length of 69.0 cm . (V1T3)treatment produced the highest value of leaf number(48 leaf/plant) (V2T3)produced the highest total yield(5.09 kg/plant) with percentage acidity of (o.68%).
The interaction of(V2T1)gaue the highest value for(stem diameter, leaf area, total dry matter,fruit weight,early yield,total soluble solids, vitamin(C)which reached 2.3 mm.,85.78 cm2.,179.0 g.,3.13 kg/plant,8.1% and 26.4 m, gr) respectively.Meanwhile,treatment of (V2)produced the highest means of all measured characters(stem diameter, leaf area, total dry matter, fruit weight, early yield,total soluble solids ,vitamin (C ) .and total percentage of acidity, which reached(2.09 mm.,77.13 cm2.,74.95 g.,155.0 g.,2.37 kg/plant,4.77 kg/plant,7.9%,18.41 g.and 0.61%).
Treatment of (T1)gave the highest characters for the studied parameters i.e.(leaf number, stem diameter, leaf area, dry matter, early yield,total soluble solids, and Vitamin C.)which reached (87.0,2.10 mm.,69.83 cm2.,73.82 g.,2.70 kg/plant,7.75 kg/plant,22.33 mg/100 g.f.fruit),respectively. |