Abstract
A study was conducted in subtropical south Texas in 1989 to determine the effects of planting method, polyethylene mulch, and rate of drip irrigation on cantaloupe growth, yield and quality. Irrigation at .25, .50, .75, 1.0, or 1.25 times pan evaporation had little effect on soil moisture or yield, with all water application levels keeping the soil close to field capacity. Transplanting vs. direct seeding enhanced early vine growth and caused earlier yield, although direct seeded plants later caught up and had final cumulative yields slightly higher than the transplants. Black polyethylene mulch also improved earliness and reduced the number of culls compared to bare soil, but at the lowest watering level total yields were reduced by the mulch due to deflection of the rainfall received. The combined practices of transplanting and polyethylene mulch caused approximately a 9 day earliness advantage over the treatment that was direct seeded on bare soil although final yield was unaffected. Soil salinity buildup may cause problems which would affect the position of the drip line and the frequency and amount of water applied.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Drip irrigation at 0.25 to 1.25 times pan evaporation had little effect on soil moisture or yield.
- Taxon
- muskmelon
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Cucumis melot0 - Treatment
- Irrigation at .25, .50, .75, 1.0, or 1.25 times pan evaporatione0
- Outcome
- soil moisture or yielde0
- Direction
- little effecte0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Irrigation at .25, .50, .75, 1.0, or 1.25 times pan evaporation had little effect on soil moisture or yield”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Transplanting versus direct seeding enhanced early vine growth.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Transplantinge0
- Outcome
- early vine growthe0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Comparator
- direct seedinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Transplanting vs. direct seeding enhanced early vine growth and caused earlier yield”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Transplanting versus direct seeding caused earlier yield.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Transplantinge0
- Outcome
- earlier yielde0
- Direction
- earliere0
- Comparator
- direct seedinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Transplanting vs. direct seeding enhanced early vine growth and caused earlier yield”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Direct seeded plants later caught up and had slightly higher final cumulative yields than transplants.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- direct seedede0
- Outcome
- final cumulative yieldse0
- Direction
- slightly highere0
- Comparator
- transplantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“although direct seeded plants later caught up and had final cumulative yields slightly higher than the transplants”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Black polyethylene mulch improved earliness compared with bare soil.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Black polyethylene mulche0
- Outcome
- earlinesse0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- bare soile0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Black polyethylene mulch also improved earliness and reduced the number of culls compared to bare soil”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Black polyethylene mulch reduced the number of culls compared with bare soil.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Black polyethylene mulche0
- Outcome
- number of cullse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- bare soile0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Black polyethylene mulch also improved earliness and reduced the number of culls compared to bare soil”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
At the lowest watering level, mulch reduced total yields, attributed to deflection of the rainfall received.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- the mulche0
- Outcome
- total yieldse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- at the lowest watering levele0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“at the lowest watering level total yields were reduced by the mulch due to deflection of the rainfall received”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Transplanting combined with polyethylene mulch gave an approximately 9 day earliness advantage over direct seeding on bare soil.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- transplanting and polyethylene mulche0
- Outcome
- earlinesse0
- Direction
- advantagee0
- Value
- 9 daye0
- Comparator
- direct seeded on bare soile0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The combined practices of transplanting and polyethylene mulch caused approximately a 9 day earliness advantage over the treatment that was direct seeded on bare soil although final yield was unaffected”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Final yield was unaffected by the combined transplanting and polyethylene mulch practices relative to direct seeding on bare soil.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- transplanting and polyethylene mulche0
- Outcome
- final yielde0
- Direction
- unaffectede0
- Comparator
- direct seeded on bare soile0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The combined practices of transplanting and polyethylene mulch caused approximately a 9 day earliness advantage over the treatment that was direct seeded on bare soil although final yield was unaffected”
t0“MUSKMELON”
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