Claim · model-written summary
Fruit of transplants had total soluble solids more than 2 per cent higher than field seeded plants started on the same date.
- Taxon
- cantaloupe
Cucumis melo var. cantalupoe0 - Treatment
- transplantse2
- Outcome
- total soluble solids content of fruite2
- Direction
- highere2
- Value
- more than 2 per cente2
- Comparator
- field seeded plants started the same datee2
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Verbatim
e0“Three-week old plants of 10 cantaloupe varieties grown in 3-inch peat pots were transplanted to the field from April 15 to 24 for a S-year period”
e2“The total soluble solids content of fruit from transplants averaged more than 2 per cent higher than that of field seeded plants started the same date”
Title
Effects of Field Seeding and Transplanting on Earliness, Quality, and Yield of Cantaloupe Varieties
J. D. Norton HortScience 1968. doi:10.21273/hortsci.3.3.175
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Transplants gave significantly higher yield and fruit weight than field seeded plants.
- Intervention effect Total soluble solids were consistently higher in fruit from transplants than in fruit from plants field seeded 7-10 days earlier.
- Intervention effect The transplant advantage in soluble solids was smaller when field seeding was 7-10 days earlier.
- Intervention effect Fruit of transplants matured about 14 days earlier than fruit of field seeded plants started on the same date.
- Intervention effect When field seeding was 7-10 days before transplanting, fruit from field seeded plants matured only 7-10 days after the transplants.
- Observation Foliar diseases were more severe in later-maturing field seeded cantaloupe plants.