INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

Volume 18, No. 01, Month JANUARY, Year 2022, Pages 93 - 104

Growth and yield of chili cuttings under different compositions of inorganic fertilizer applications

Ganefianti, D. W., Arianto., Romeida, A., Herawati, R. and Armadi, Y.

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Vegetative propagation of chili by cutting offers an alternative method that produce planting materials genetically identical to the mother. The growth and yield of three hybrids chili cuttings grown with different compositions of inorganic fertilizer applications were compared. The hybrids produced as cuttings of UNIB CH13, UNIB CH73, and UNIB CH65 were studied incorporating to fertilizer compositions which consisted of control (no fertilizer applied), 250 kg Urea /ha + 500 kg TSP /ha + 400 kg KCl /ha, 1214.6 kg NPK (16:16:16)/ha, and 607.3 kg NPK (16:16:16)/ha + 125 kg Urea/ha + 250 kg TSP /ha + 200 kg KCl /ha). The results showed that the fertilizer composition and its interaction with hybrids producing cutting were not significant for all growth and yield. Also, the cuttings of UNIB CH73 produced most fruit (59.50 g/plant) with harvest date at 70.7 days after planting (dap), followed by UNIB CH13 (47.10 g/plant) with harvest date at 75.4 dap; and UNIB CH65 (21.21 g) with harvest at 64.4 dap.

Keywords

Hybrid chili, Cuttings, Inorganic fertilizers

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