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Effect of plastic covering and potassium fertilization source on growth and fruiting of flame seedless grapevines

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Horticulture sciences

Abstract

Grapevine growth and fruiting are affected by covering and potassium fertilization. For two years field study, 2019 and 2020 seasons in a factorial experiment in randomized complete block design were conducted to study the effects of plastic covering and potassium fertilizer sources on Flame Seedless grapevines. Flame Seedless grown in Upper Egypt and harvested between 15th May to 10th June. In this time, market of table grape is suffering from over supply. Thus, prices decrease considerably in the market. On other contrary, harvesting early (before mid of May) leads to at least a 50% increase in the total income. In this experiment outdoor grown Flame Seedless grapevines were covered with UV+IR (Ultra violet + Infra-red) type of polyethylene film (PE) after dormex application at first week of January. Phenological phases like bud-burst, flowering, veraison and ripening as well as vegetative growth, yield quality were determined. Using potassin or feldspar plus potassin significantly increased the growth, and significantly improved the vine nutritional status as well as significantly yield components and improved berry quality. Plastic covering significantly enhanced the dates of all phonological phases, especially ripening that was earlier about 17 & 22 days in both studied seasons compared to uncovered ones. Plastic covering has a positive effect on growth aspects, yield and fruit quality. So, it could be concluded that Flame Seedless grape cultivar gave the highest and earliest yield with good berry quality when covering with plastic film and fertilized with feldspar plus potassin as natural sources of potassium.

DOI

10.21608/svuijas.2021.65024.1083

Keywords

Plastic covering, fertilization Table grapes, yield, fruit quality

Authors

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E.H.

Last Name

Salem

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Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Aswan University

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nopysalem@yahoo.com

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Luxor

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First Name

Fatma El-Zahraa M.

Last Name

Gouda

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Affiliation

Pomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University

Email

fatmg@yahoo.com

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First Name

M.M.A.

Last Name

Abd El-Rahman

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Affiliation

Horticulture Department (Pomology), Faculty of Agriculture, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

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montoali@yahoo.com

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0000-0003-2687-6812

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3

Article Issue

2

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22988

Issue Date

2021-04-01

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2021-02-24

Publish Date

2021-04-01

Page Start

89

Page End

100

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2636-3801

Online ISSN

2636-381X

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1,132

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SVU-International Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://svuijas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect of plastic covering and potassium fertilization source on growth and fruiting of flame seedless grapevines

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Created At

22 Jan 2023