Abstract
Establishment and management of pineapple production mainly lie on the production and supply of quality planting material with desirable root and shoot growth characteristics. Farmers in the South Ethiopia, uses different parts of pineapple like ground sucker, slips, and also crown sucker to transplant to the permanent fields. The fertilization practices were also not common, some farmers use to apply organic fertilizers like animal dung at the permanent field while there is no any media information generated to seedling production. Therefore, this study was conducted to examine the dry matter Production responses of non-conventional pineapple Seedling to organic based nursery media Preparation. The experiment was arranged in RCBD with three replication and six treatments. Six treatment combinations of compost to topsoil ratio in (0:1), (1:1), (1:2), (1:3) (1:4) and compost only (1:0). All the relevant parameters were collected and computed using SAS software. Treatment means were separated using LSD at 5% probability. The results revealed significant variation among the treatments that indicated, the soil based nursery media of compost (1:0) and (1:1) ratio of compost to topsoil responded the best dry matter production response of pineapple seedling in terms of, leaf fresh weight, leaf dry weight, root dry weight and total plant dry biomass. This result suggested that compost (1:0) and or compost to topsoil in (1:1) ratios was useful media to produce the best growth of pineapple seedling before transplanting to its production field.
Highlights
Media composition used as treatment was influenced the general dry matter accumulation of pineapple seeding at nursery stage before transplanting to the permanent field
The current trail indicates that, it is very important to raise the best seedling growth or planting material of pineapple with organic compost used as nursery media
Pineapple seedlings performed better in soil growth media containing compost in all parameters observed in this research work
Summary
Merr.) belongs to Bromeliaceae family, which originated from South America, Southern Brazil, Northern Argentina and Praguay (Paull and Lobo, 2012) cited by Shamil et al, 2020 [1]. Pineapple (Ananas comosus L.) is the leading edible member of the Bromeliaceae family. Pineapple plants are usually propagated using vegetative planting material. There is a wide variety of types of vegetative planting material in which both cultivar and environment affect the availability and quality of material used to plant commercial fields [3]. The more common types of planting material produced naturally by the plants referred to as conventional planting material, that include: a) Crowns from the top of the fruit; b) Slips from the peduncle; c) Suckers, which originate below the stem peduncle transition zone [4]. Non-conventional planting material could be obtained under field or nursery conditions by human interference applying specific techniques [3] like plantlets obtained by sectioning parts of the plant, which enables the development of lateral buds present along the stem of the mother plant or the small stem of the conventional types of planting material mentioned above [3]
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