Claim · model-written summary
Pretransplant nutrient conditioning shortened time to staminate and pistillate flowering.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Treatment
- pretransplant nutrient conditioning (PNC)e0
- Outcome
- time to flowering for staminate and pistillate flowerse0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Increasing cell volume or pretransplant nutrient conditioning (PNC) reduced the time to flowering for staminate and pistillate flowers in watermelon”
Title
Charles J. Graham; James T. Payne; Eric J. Molnar HortTechnology 2000. doi:10.21273/horttech.10.1.199
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Larger cell volume shortened time to staminate and pistillate flowering.
- Intervention effect Larger cell volumes increased early harvested watermelon number in two of three studies.
- Intervention effect Larger cell volumes increased average watermelon weight in two of three studies.
- Intervention effect Larger cell volume raised early yield per area in 1995 and 1998 but not 1997.
- Intervention effect Larger cell volume raised total yield per area in 1995 and 1998 but not 1997.
- Intervention effect The effect of cell volume on soluble solids varied by season.
- Intervention effect Conditioning increased the number of early harvested melons in 1995.
- Intervention effect Conditioning increased early yield per area in 1995.
- Intervention effect Conditioning increased soluble solids in early harvested fruit in 1997.
- Intervention effect Conditioning had no significant effect on total Jubilee watermelon size.
- Intervention effect Conditioning had no significant effect on total production during 1995, 1997 or 1998.
- Recommendation The authors judge nutrient conditioning of little advantage to transplant growers.
- Recommendation The authors favor increasing transplant cell size to improve early and total yields.