Claim · model-written summary
The foliar fertilizer significantly improved fruit quality.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- foliar application of 500-fold solution of Shima Brand high potassium fertilizer(N:P:K=7%:12%: 40%) for 4-5 times with 400 g eache0
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye0
- Direction
- improvee0
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Verbatim
e0“the foliar application of 500-fold solution of Shima Brand high potassium fertilizer(N:P:K=7%:12%: 40%) for 4-5 times with 400 g each could increase the fruit yield by 29.67%over CK without additional fertilizer and by more than 10%over the traditional hole application,and also could significantly improve the fruit quality.”
t0“watermelon”
Title
Song Rong-ha Shanghai nongye xuebao 2013
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Recommendation Single-vine pruning was judged most suitable for the cultivar under protected cultivation.
- Recommendation The appropriate planting density was 12 000-14 400 plants/hm~2.
- Recommendation The recommended base fertilizer rate included 900-1 125 kg/hm~2 Shima Brand complex fertilizer.
- Recommendation The recommended base fertilizer rate included 22.5 t/hm~2 refined organic fertilizer.
- Intervention effect Foliar high potassium fertilizer increased fruit yield by 29.67% over CK without additional fertilizer.
- Intervention effect Foliar high potassium fertilizer increased fruit yield by more than 10% over traditional hole application.