Initial growth characteristics of two coffee cultivars under different water regimes and levels of NPK fertilization

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Renan Soares de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Helbel Júnior, Celso, Rezende, Roberto, Costa, André Ribeiro da, Freitas, Paulo Sérgio Lourenço de, Tavore, Rafael Verri, Maller, André
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Semina. Ciências Agrárias (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semagrarias/article/view/10062
• topic: Coffea Arabica; Localized irrigation; Chemigation; Formation phase.; Irrigation and Drainage; Coffea arábica; Irrigação localizada; Quimigação; Fase de formação.; Irrigação e Drenagem

The experiment objectified to evaluate the effects of water regimes (irrigation and no irrigation) and fertigation, combined with fertilizer doses for N, P and K, during the initial growth phase of two coffee cultivars, Obatã and IAPAR-59, in the north-western region of the state of Paraná, Brazil. The experimental design was the completely randomized in a split-plot arrangement. The main plots were represented by fertilizer doses, corresponding to 15, 30, 45 and 60 g m-1, for N and K, and to 3, 6, 9 and 12 g m-1, for P, which are equivalent, respectively, to percentages of 50%, 100%, 150% and 200% of the dose recommended for each nutrient. The sub-plots were constituted by lines of plants that received the water regimes. Were evaluated stalk diameter, length of the first plagiotropic branch and its number of inter-knots. The treatments were analyzed separately for each cultivar of coffee. Fertigation and irrigation favored the initial growth of both coffee cultivars. For the IAPAR-59 cultivar, the number of inter-knots was upper only with fertigation. The number of inter-knots increased with irrigation and decreased in no irrigation regime, linearly, for IAPAR-59 and Obatã, respectively, in function of the NPK doses increasing. In fertigation, it was observed reduction of stalk diameter at doses higher than the lowest dose tested, for IAPAR-59, while the largest number of inter-knots was obtained with the highest dose used, for Obatã.