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Cytoplant 400 On Melon: Test To Evaluate Biostimulant Efficacy of Cytoplant-400 in Open Air Melon Crop SICOP - Year 2015
Cytoplant 400 On Melon: Test To Evaluate Biostimulant Efficacy of Cytoplant-400 in Open Air Melon Crop SICOP - Year 2015
1.2 Objective:
Evaluate the product Cytoplant 400 as a growth biostimulant in melon crops,
evaluate earliness, fruits and production by plot, as well as calibre.
1. Materials and methods (II):
1.3 Location:
30
25 24
23
20
15 14
10
0
1st harvest 2nd harvest 3rd harvest
T1-Control T2-CYTOPLANT 1 l/ha
2.2 Results: Nº commercial fruits
Average Nº fruits per plot
10.00
9.00
9.00 8.50
7.94
8.00
7.00
6.00
6.00 5.75
5.00
4.00
2.89
3.00
2.00
1.00
0.00
1st harvest (*) 2nd harvest 3rd harvest
T1-Control T2-CYTOPLANT 1 l/ha
80
67.05 65.22
60
41.3
40
20
0
1st harvest 2nd harvest 3rd harvest
T1-Control T2-CYTOPLANT 1 l/ha
2.4 Results: commercial fruit weight
Total weight commercial fruit per treatment (in kg)
300
276.44
250
204.27
200
150
100
50
0
T1-Control T2-CYTOPLANT 1 l/ha
2.5 Economic yield (kg/ha)
Yield per hectare (kg/ha)
35.3
T1- Control %
kg/ha
€
T1- Testigo 8959.19
3,165
(*) Yield calculated at € 0.40 /kg (melon price in the test region for this
campaign)
3. Conclusions
Nº fruits/earliness:
• Cytoplant 400 at a dose of 1 l/ha achieves early harvest and greater
number of harvested fruits.
Production/yield:
• The main differences are observed in the the total number of fruits
achieved, which indicates that the tested products influence fruit set.
• Cytoplant 400 at a dose of 1 l/ha achieves 35% increase compared to
control.