A study on the performance of vegetative characters and yield of papaya cv. red lady 786 under open and protected conditions
International Journal of Development Research
A study on the performance of vegetative characters and yield of papaya cv. red lady 786 under open and protected conditions
Received 02nd June, 2017; Received in revised form 19th July, 2017; Accepted 21st August, 2017; Published online 29th September, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Kuljeet Kaur and Amarjeet Kaur. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A study on the performance of papaya cv. Red Lady 786 under open and protected conditions was conducted in the Department of Horticulture, Khalsa college Amritsar during 2016-2017. The seedlings of papaya cv. Red Lady 786 were planted in the second week of August with a spacing of 1.6 x 1.6 m in net house and open field at the same time. The investigation was laid out in CRD with two treatment combinations replicated thrice. Results of the study revealed that the plants under net house showed an increase in the vegetative growth, flowering, fruiting and yield parameters of papaya with maximum height of plants (214.05 cm), number of leaves per plant (20.46), leaf area (876.5 cm2), number of hermaphrodite flowers per plant (51.32), fruits per plant (49.52) and yield (45.39 kg/plant) respectively. Hence, the plants of papaya cv. Red Lady 786 showed an improved vegetative characters with increased yield 5 as compared to open field.
