Studies on Effect of Pruning and Nutrition on Yield and Quality of Fig (Ficus carica L.)

Abstract

An experiment was conducted on “Studies on the effect of pruning and nutrition on growth, yield, and quality of fig (Ficus carica L.)” fig orchard located at the College of Agriculture, Badnapur, during the year 2021-2022. The field experiment was laid out in Factorial Randomized Block Design (FRBD) replicated thrice with twelve treatments, where factor ‘A’ is heading back of 30 cm central leader, heading back of 30 cm side branches and pruning with alternate limbs and control and factor ‘B’ is soil application of N: P2O5: K2O at different levels. The pruning was done in 11th October of 2021. Observations were made on physiological, flowering, and quality traits. The results of the investigation revealed that the morphological, physiological, and quality characters were significantly influenced by different pruning levels and fertilizer treatments. Among the different treatments, T6 (Heading back of 30cm side branches with soil application of N: P2O5: K2O @ 900: 250:275g/plant) influence the yield characters viz., number of fruits per tree, number of spur or flowers per plant and, yield of fruit per tree, yield of fruit per hectare. The quality characters like total soluble solids, ascorbic acid content, reducing sugars, non-reducing sugars and weight of pulp were higher in T6 (Heading back of 30 cm side branches with Soil application of N: P2O5:K2O @ 900: 250: 275g/plant). In conclusion of this study, it was inferred that T6 (Heading back of 30cm side branches with Soil application of N: P2O5: K2O @ 900: 250:275g/plant).

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.300011

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71 - 77

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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