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Effect of Potassium, Microelements and Seaweed Extract Spraying on Yield and Fruit Quality of Balady Mandarin (<I>Citrus reticulata</i> Blanco)

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Horticulture (Vegetable, Pomology and Ornamentals)

Abstract

This study was carried out during three successive seasons of 2019, 2020 and 2021 on 25 years old Balady mandarin trees budded on sour orange root stock and planted at 5 x 5 m apart.
The selected trees grown at the experimental orchard of Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University Egypt.  Where the soil has a clay texture and well-draining, surface irrigation was used.  Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of seaweed extract, potassium and micronutrients on yield and fruit quality of Balady Mandarin trees.
Forty-eight healthy trees, uniform in vigor as possible were chosen. The chosen trees were divided into eight different treatments including the control. The selected trees received four sprays from each treatment at full bloom, just after fruit setting, first week of July and September.
Treatments were arranged in a randomized complete block design with three replications per treatment, two trees each. All the studied treatments significantly increased yield, fruit physical and chemical properties and decreased total acidity %. The best treatments during the three study seasons were spraying with potassium at 2% + micronutrients at 3% + seaweed extracts at 2%. According to the previous results, it could be concluded that spraying Balady mandarin trees with liquid potassium 2% + micronutrients 3% + seaweed extracts 2% four sprays at full bloom, just after fruit set, first week of July and September to measure yield and improve fruit quality.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2022.154127.1161

Keywords

citrus, Balady mandarin, seaweed extract, potassium, Micronutrients

Authors

First Name

Aiman K.A.

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Pomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt.

Email

ayman.mohamed@agr.aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0002-6830-3994

First Name

Rashad A.

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Pomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt.

Email

rashad.ibrahem@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000000163099069

First Name

Eman A.A.

Last Name

Abou-Zaid

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Pomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt.

Email

eman.hakeem@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0002-8641-1411

First Name

Mohamed F.M.

Last Name

Kenawy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Pomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt.

Email

m.farghly@yahoo.com

City

Assiut

Orcid

-

Volume

53

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

37148

Issue Date

2022-10-01

Receive Date

2022-08-03

Publish Date

2022-10-01

Page Start

92

Page End

107

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_264667.html

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Original Article

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62

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Publication Link

https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Effect of Potassium, Microelements and Seaweed Extract Spraying on Yield and Fruit Quality of Balady Mandarin (<I>Citrus reticulata</i> Blanco)

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Created At

22 Jan 2023