Efficacy of Organic Manure Application on Cucumber Varieties for Morphological Study

Aino Udin, Waseem Baran, Atta Ullah, Salman Jafar, Kaleem ullah, Muhammad Waris, Ghulam Yaseen, Gohar Khan, AmanUllah Khan, Muhammad Rehan Malik, Haseebullah ., Faiz Ullah

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Cucumber is one of the most important vegetables being grown and consumed in various Asian countries, including Pakistan.  In current study, the experiment was conducted at Vegetable Seed Farm (VSF), Agriculture Research Institute, Quetta during 2020-21 under randomized complete block design (RCBD) with six treatments. Treatment 1 (T1) was Control, which has no organic manure, while other organic manure different doses set from 4 kg to 20 kg per 400 m2 were applied from treatment 2 (T2) to treatment 6 (T6) by increasing 4 kg in each treatment. The results showed that cucumber crop in treatment 6 exhibited significant results for all studied traits, with 16.49 (cm) plant height, 23.92 (cm) leaf length, 2.41 (cm) plant width, 17.94 number of branches, 52.41 fruit length (cm), 15.27 (cm) fruit diameter, 31.63 (g) fruit weight, 14.45 number of fruits plant-1 and 9.06 kg yield plant-1. Which was effective as compared to others and control. Among the tested cucumber varieties, there was a very minute difference observed for all measured traits, however, variety Kargil performed superior for all yielding components with 14.91 (cm) plant height, 18.47 (cm) leaf length, 1.88 (cm) plant width, 13.59 number of branches, 49.62 days to flowering, 71.88 days to fruit set, 16.75 (cm) fruit length, 12.54 (cm) fruit diameter, 27.95 (g) fruit weight, 12.77 number of fruits plant-1 and 7.59 kg yield plant-1. On the other hand, the variety Kheera Local (check) showed the lowest performance for maximum traits, including 14.25 (cm) plant height, 16.41 (cm) leaf length, 1.68 (cm) plant width, 11.95 number of branches, 48.52 fruit length (cm), 11.50 (cm) fruit diameter, 26.54 (g) fruit weight, 12.12 number of fruits plant-1 and 7.02 kg yield plant-1. From the present study, it is concluded that the application of organic manure with maximum dose (T6) significantly improved the growth and yield related traits of cucumber crop. On the other hand, the variety 'Kargil’ showed high performance and was found to be one of the most productive cultivars as compared to other varieties in terms of studied parameters.

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Balochistan; Cucumber verities; Organic manure; Morphological study; Treatments

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