Influence of muchingmini watermelon ‘Sugar Baby’inearly fruiting

• Autor(a) principal: Amaral, Uirá do
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Santos, Valdineia Maria dos, Oliveira, André Dorneles, Carvalho, Silvio Luís, Silva, Isabella Borges
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Verde de Agroecologia e Desenvolvimento Sustentavel
• Texto Completo: https://www.gvaa.com.br/revista/index.php/RVADS/article/view/4013
• topic: Organic agriculture; Mulching; Organic compost; Agricultura orgânica; cobertura do solo; composto orgânico

The work was intended to evaluate the influence of different types of mulch in cultivating mini watermelon „Sugar Baby‟at the beginning of fruiting, the experiment was installed on the campus of the Faculdade of Filosofia and Ciências Humanas ofGoiatuba-GO, February-April 2015. The experimental desingused was of randomized blocks with four treatments and five repetitions, with six plants per plot. The treatments were: control (no mulch); rice husk; sawdust and waste corn silage. The plants were evaluated at 44 days after planting, the reproductive phase, however, the fruits were not ripe and the occurrence of weeds was held fortnightly, identified all the weeds present in the plot. The following variables wereanalyzed: number of fruits; fruit weight; fresh root mass (g); fresh weight of aerial parts (g); dry mass of roots (g); dry mass of shoots (g) and the occurrence of weed species in each treatment used. The mulch silage residue base was superior to other treatments, except for variable number of fruits per plant. The occurrence of weeds was lower when we used the sawdust treatments and silage waste.