Morphology and fruit quality characters of Pineapple (Ananas comosus L. Merr) cv. Queen on three sites planting: freshwater peat, brackish peat and alluvial soil

Abstract

The growth and fruit quality of the crop is strongly influenced by the environment in which it grows. The purpose of this study was to observe the growth and fruit quality of pineapple (Ananas comusus L. Merr) cv. Queen that cultivated in the three different ecosystems. Pineapple cv. Queen was planted in three different ecosystems, namely in freshwater peatlands, brackish water peatlands and Alluvial soils in Riau province. Morphology and fruit quality characters of pineapple were evaluated at each ecosystem. The result of this study displayed that pineapple cultivated in freshwater peatland having fruit weight (1540.64 g), fruit length (19.80 cm), sucker number (4.94 pieces), slip number (3.16 pieces), total dissolve content (14.19°Brix), titratable acidity (TA) (0.51%), and water content (85.94%) higher than others site. Morphology and fruit quality characters of pineapple that cultivated in brackish water peatlands and alluvial soils were not significantly different. Our finding of this study that pineapple grows well on three soil types and is adaptive in peatland so that pineapple can be selected as an alternative crop to be developed in the peatland in the future.