Abstract
Aims: The experiment aimed to investigate the effect of seasons (early raining and late raining) and mulching materials (Black polyethylene, White polyethylene, Grass-mulch and control) on marketable fruit yield of cucumber. Study Design: The experimental design was a 4 x 4 factorial laid out in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. Data were collected on plant morphology and fruit components; number of leave, vine length, branch number, tendril number, stem diameter; number of fruits per plant, fruit length, fruit circumference, fruit weight, number of marketable fruits per plot and number of non-marketable fruit per plot and fruit yield per plot (converted to per hectare). Place and Duration of Study: The present study was carried out at Teaching and Research Farm of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria (located on longitude 04º33lE and latitude 08º28lN at 244 m above sea level) during the growing seasons of 2017 and 2018. Methodology: The data collected were subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA) using (SAS, 2003 version). Means of significant treatments were separated using Duncan`s Multiple Range Test (DMRT). Results: The obtained results revealed that seasons and mulching materials had significant effect on some of the parameters investigated. Late season significantly enhanced the fruit length, fruit weight and total fruit yield when compared with the early seasons. The mulching materials, black polyethylene mulching materials significantly enhanced the morphology and some of fruit components; fruit length and fruit weight while white plastic mulch significantly improved the number of fruit per plant, fruit diameter and total yield of cucumber at both early and late seasons followed by grass-mulch. However, control consistently produced the highest number of non-marketable fruits when compared with other treatments investigated. Conclusion: Therefore, planting of Poinsett76 variety towards the ending of raining seasons with the application of white plastic mulching is highly recommended for the small holder farmers.
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Claim · model-written summary
Late season significantly enhanced fruit length, fruit weight and total fruit yield of cucumber compared with the early seasons.
- Taxon
- Cucumis sativus L.
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- Late seasone0
- Outcome
- fruit length, fruit weight and total fruit yielde0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Comparator
- early seasonse0
- Setting
- Ile-Ife, Nigeriae5
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t0“Effect of Seasons, Mulching Materials, and Fruit Quality on a Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Variety”
e0“Late season significantly enhanced the fruit length, fruit weight and total fruit yield when compared with the early seasons”
e5“Teaching and Research Farm of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria”
Claim · model-written summary
Black polyethylene mulch significantly enhanced cucumber fruit length and fruit weight.
- Taxon
- Cucumis sativus L.Cucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- black polyethylene mulching materialse1
- Outcome
- fruit length and fruit weighte1
- Direction
- enhancede1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Effect of Seasons, Mulching Materials, and Fruit Quality on a Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Variety”
e1“black polyethylene mulching materials significantly enhanced the morphology and some of fruit components; fruit length and fruit weight”
Claim · model-written summary
White plastic mulch significantly improved fruit number per plant, fruit diameter and total yield of cucumber in both seasons.
- Taxon
- Cucumis sativus L.Cucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- white plastic mulche2
- Outcome
- number of fruit per plant, fruit diameter and total yielde2
- Direction
- improvede2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Effect of Seasons, Mulching Materials, and Fruit Quality on a Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Variety”
e2“white plastic mulch significantly improved the number of fruit per plant, fruit diameter and total yield of cucumber at both early and late seasons followed by grass-mulch”
Claim · model-written summary
The control produced the highest number of non-marketable cucumber fruits compared with other treatments.
- Taxon
- Cucumis sativus L.Cucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- controle3
- Outcome
- number of non-marketable fruitse3
- Direction
- higheste3
- Comparator
- other treatmentse3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Effect of Seasons, Mulching Materials, and Fruit Quality on a Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Variety”
e3“control consistently produced the highest number of non-marketable fruits when compared with other treatments investigated”
Claim · model-written summary
Planting Poinsett76 towards the end of the rainy season with white plastic mulching is recommended for smallholder farmers.
- Taxon
- Cucumis sativus L.Cucumis sativust0
- Material
- Poinsett76e4
- Outcome
- planting of Poinsett76 variety towards the ending of raining seasons with the application of white plastic mulchinge4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Effect of Seasons, Mulching Materials, and Fruit Quality on a Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Variety”
e4“planting of Poinsett76 variety towards the ending of raining seasons with the application of white plastic mulching is highly recommended for the small holder farmers”
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