Ijazulhaq Haqmal*, Suresh Kumar, RPS Dalal and Om Prakash Jitarwal
Department of Horticulture,
CCS Haryana Agricultural University-125004 (Haryana), India
Received-01.06.2022, Revised-14.06.2022, Accepted-23.06.2022
Abstract:The experiment including fifteen treatments of different chemicals was conducted on seven years old plants at Experimental Orchard of the Department of Horticulture, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during the year 2020 to study the effect of CaCl2, CaSO4, borax, salicylic acid and chitosan on fruit cracking of pomegranate. The result of the experiment indicates that the foliar application of CaCl2, CaSO4, borax, salicylic acid and chitosan had a significantly positive effect on most of the recorded parameters.The minimum number of fruits cracked (13.3), number of fruit cracking per cent on number basis from June on ward at monthly interval (9.9%) and number of fruit cracking per cent on weight basis from June onward at monthly interval (5.8%) was recorded with 0.3 per cent borax.
Keywords:Pomegranate, Fruit cracking, CaCl2, CaSO4, Borax, Salicylic acid,Chitosan
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