Table 3 Effect of algal treatments of cucumber Hesham hybrid compared with control and Rugby nematicide on early and total, marketable yield and unmarketable yield percentage under infested soil with root-knot nematodes in 2016 and 2017 seasons
Treatments | 2016 | 2017 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yield/Plant | Early Yield/Plant | Marketable yield (ton/Greenhouse) | Unmarketable (%) | Yield/Plant | Early Yield/Plant | Marketable Yield (ton/Green house) | Unmarketable (%) | |||||
Number | Weight (kg) | Number | Weight (g) | Number | Weight (kg) | Number | Weight (g) | |||||
Control | 21 | 2.150 | 2.21 | 215.3 | 1.970 | 8.38 | 20 | 2.095 | 3.1 | 312.3 | 1.906 | 9.01 |
Rugby 10G | 37 | 4.431 | 5.30 | 634.9 | 4.180 | 5.66 | 41 | 4.874 | 5.5 | 653.8 | 4.612 | 5.38 |
Spirulina spray | 27 | 3.229 | 5.00 | 598.0 | 3.107 | 3.76 | 30 | 3.214 | 4.8 | 578.2 | 3.423 | 5.28 |
Spirulina drench | 34 | 4.375 | 5.21 | 670.5 | 4.102 | 6.25 | 36 | 3.405 | 5.3 | 648.5 | 4.158 | 5.61 |
Amphora spray | 30 | 3.695 | 5.62 | 692.4 | 3.462 | 6.31 | 34 | 4.464 | 5.3 | 695.9 | 4.248 | 4.84 |
Amphora drench | 38 | 4.714 | 5.83 | 722.9 | 4.436 | 5.89 | 41 | 4.647 | 5.6 | 662.0 | 4.615 | 4.78 |
Spirulina spray + drench | 35 | 4.505 | 5.81 | 747.7 | 4.280 | 5.00 | 41 | 4.626 | 5.4 | 625.1 | 4.510 | 4.98 |
Amphora spray + drench | 42 | 5.168 | 6.24 | 767.5 | 4.923 | 4.74 | 45 | 4.981 | 5.9 | 721.5 | 5.136 | 4.56 |
LSD at t 0.05 | 3.8 | 0.311 | 1.23 | 46 | 1.120 | 1.43 | 4.1 | 0.521 | 1.11 | 55 | 1.44 | 1.87 |