Effect of foliar application of micronutrients on growth, yield, quality and seed yield of chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) under temperate conditions of Kashmir Valley

Abstract

The present investigation was conducted during Kharif 2017 and 2018 at experimental field Division of Vegetable Sciences, SKUAST-Kashmir to assess the effect effect of foliar application of micronutrients on growth, yield, quality and seed yield of chilli (Capsicum annuum L). Under temperate conditions of Kashmir valley. The trail was carried out in chilli cv. kashmir long-1 consisting of 8 treatments. T1=control, T2=Feso4 @0.2%, T3=Ca NO3, T4=Boron @0.1%, T5 =Mixture of all (T2+T3+T4), T6 (spray of T5 except Feso4@ 0.2%), T7 (Spraying of T5 except CaNO3 @ 0.2%) and T8 (spraying of T5 without [email protected]%), replicated thrice with Randomized Block Design. The foliar application of the treatments was done at 60, 90 and 120 days after transplanting. Pooled analysis revealed that amongst the treatments, treatment T5 (Spraying with mixture of all T2+T3+T4) performed best in all growth attributing traits, yield attributing traits and seed yield viz. plant height (70.02.cm), no. of primary branches per plant (8.51),plant spread (36.13 cm), number of fruits per plant (47.80), dry fruit yield per ha (52.61 q ha-1), average fruit weight (6.64 g), fruit length (10.52 cm),fruit width (1.36 cm) and seed yield (9.61 q ha-1). As far as quality parameters are concerned oleoresin content (6.34%), vitamin c content (67.60 mg /100 g) were also found maximum in treatment T5 (Spraying with mixture of all T2+T3+T4) followed by treatment T7 in most of the treatments.