Effect of Different Training System on Growth, Yield and Quality of Bottle Guard (Lagenaria siceraria L.) under Prayagraj Agro-Climatic Condition

Abstract

The present investigation was planned to know the feasibility of training systems of growing vis-a-vis traditional method and their effects on growth, yield and quality traits in bottle gourd [Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) Standl]. The results revealed that trailing method had significantly higher vine length (495.21 cm), number of nodes/vine (11.55) and chlorophyll content (40.32) at 90 DAS. The reduction in number of days to anthesis to first male flower (55.13 days) and female flower (62.30 days) in trailing as compared to other trailing systems. The fruit development attributes, viz. number of fruits plants-1 (9.47), fruit weight (4119.15 gm) were recorded significantly higher in trailing but significantly less fruit width (64.10m), were recorded in training system. Fruit yield attributes, i.e. the number of total fruit plant-1 (9.47), fruit yield plot-1 (9.84 kg), seed yield ha-1 (246.45 qha-1) was significantly higher in bower training system. The significant increase in germination (97.54%) was recorded in trailing system as compared to traditional system (95.21%). Similarly, seedling length (42.66 cm), and seedling dry weight (6.56 mg) were significantly higher in training systems. B:C ratio (4.60%) were also significantly superior in Inverted “V” trellis. The presence of fungi was lower in trailing than traditional among the infected fruits.