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Effects of irrigation amount and various fertigation methods on yield and quality of cucumber in greenhouse.

FANG Dong-ping1, ZHANG Fu-cang1,2, LI Jing1, WANG Hai-dong1, XIANG You-zhen1, ZHANG Yan1   

  1. (1College of Water Resources and Architectural Engineering/Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semiarid Areas of Ministry of Education, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China; 2Institute of WaterSaving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China)
  • Online:2015-06-18 Published:2015-06-18

Abstract:

Taking cucumber as experimental plant, an experiment was conducted to study the effects of irrigation amount and fertigation methods on growth, yield and quality of cucumber in greenhouse. The experiment had designed two irrigation levels, i.e. 100% ET0〖KG*3〗(W1) and 75% ET0 (W2), and four fertigation fertilization ratios, i.e. 100%, 66.6%, 33.3% and 0% (Z100, Z66, Z33, Z0) fertigation of a total amount of (360:180:540 kg·hm-2) (N:P2O5:K2O) by 8 times with the corresponding remainders (0%, 33.3%, 66.6% and 100%) were applied to soil as basic fertilization before the planting according to the recommended fertilization rate, and no fertilizer treatment was set up as the control (CK). Results showed that irrigation and fertilization levels had positive correlations with plant height, leaf areas, dry mass, yield and quality of cucumber. Yield at W1Z100 was the highest, reaching 67760 kg·hm-2. W2 treatment increased the mean water use efficiency (WUE) by 9.4% compared to W1. W2Z100 treatment had the highest WUE, reaching 47.13 kg·m-3. Yield at W2Z100 was only 3.4% lower than the maximum, but saved 25% of water. Yield and dry matter at Z100 were 15.3% and 16.8% higher than at Z0, respectively, the cucumber fruit vitamin C, soluble protein and soluble sugar contents were increased, and the water use efficiency was increased by 19.1%. W2Z100 treatment was the best treatment which could enable cucumber to obtain both the high-yield and the high-quality.