Claim · model-written summary
Pruning at four weeks improved plant height and leaf number and enhanced yield.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- pruning at 4 WASe0
- Outcome
- plant height and the number of leaves per plante0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Qualifier
- ultimately enhances yielde0
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Verbatim
e0“Further, pruning at 4 WAS resulted in better growth in terms of plant height and the number of leaves per plant which ultimately enhances yield.”
t0“cucumber”
Title
Response of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) to differential pruning under greenhouse
Ibrahim Garba Ismail; Zahra Buhari Fatima; Kabir Samaila Bello Journal of Dryland Agriculture 2020. doi:10.5897/joda2020.0038
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Pruning regime significantly influenced plant height and leaf number.
- Intervention effect Pruning regime significantly influenced maturity, unit fruit weight and total yield.
- Intervention effect Pruning at five weeks produced the highest yield, 14 tons per hectare.
- Recommendation Greenhouse hybrid cucumber pruning should be delayed until weeks four to six for better growth and yield.