Residual effect of integrated nutrition on flowering, maturity and fruit quality in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) Kumar Rabindra, Srivastava B.K. Department of Vegetable Science, College of Agriculture, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263 145, U.S. Nagar, Uttarakhand Online published on 5 April, 2012. Abstract Eleven nutritional treatments, constituted by integrating various organic sources like FYM, poultry manure, neem cake, Azotobacter, VAM, PSB and crop residue along with the inorganic fertilization, were tested for their residual effect on the flowering, maturity and fruit quality of tomato in okra-pea-tomato cropping system. The treatments were administered in the first crop i.e., okra. The flowering and maturity characters were non-signifi-cantly influenced by the treatments but the fruit quality parameters i.e., fruit dry weight, TSS, ascorbic acid and acidity content varied significantly due to various INM treatments. All these attributes were found to be significantly improved by the integration of one or the other organic sources with the chemical fertilizers in comparison to control (sole chemical fertilization). Top |