Beta
18590

Improving Washington Navel Orange Trees Productivity by Foliar Spray with Calcium Chloride, Calcium Nitrate and Calcium Chelate

Article

Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Nine years old Washington Navel Orange Trees grow on clayey soil at Ashmoun District, AlMenoufya Governorate, Egypt; were sprayed with calcium chloride at 1, 2 and 3%, calcium nitrate at 1, 2 and 3% and calcium chelate at 1000, 2000 and 3000ppm at 3 spraying dates; 15th of April, 15th of June and 15th of August. Results indicated that spraying nutrients increased N, P, K and Ca content in leaves compared with the untreated trees. Meanwhile, yield as number of fruits and number of fruits/tree were significantly improved by spraying different nutrient especially when sprayed with calcium nitrate or calcium chloride at 3%. Creasing and fruit cracking/trees were significantly decreased by spraying calcium chloride at 3%. However fruit quality (physical and chemical characteristics) were significantly improved by spraying different nutrient treatments at higher concentrations.

Keywords

Washington Navel orange, foliar spray, Mineral content, yield and fruit quality, creasing, fruit cracking

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

El Sheikh

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Horticultural Crops Technology, National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Nagwa

Last Name

Zaeid

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Fruit Research, National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Salwa

Last Name

Khafagy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Fruit Research, National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

skhafagy@hotmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

2

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

3874

Issue Date

2007-01-01

Receive Date

2018-11-08

Publish Date

2007-01-01

Page Start

45

Page End

49

Print ISSN

1687-5052

Online ISSN

2090-2786

Link

https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18590.html

Detail API

https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=18590

Order

6

Type

Original Article

Type Code

644

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Catrina: The International Journal of Environmental Sciences

Publication Link

https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Improving Washington Navel Orange Trees Productivity by Foliar Spray with Calcium Chloride, Calcium Nitrate and Calcium Chelate

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023