Triploid Watermelon and Cantaloupe Variety Trials---2015 Wenjing - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Triploid Watermelon and Cantaloupe Variety Trials---2015 Wenjing Guan Dennis Nowaskie Daniel S. Egel Horticulture Specialist Superintendent Plant Pathologist Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center Vincennes, IN, 47591 Presented at 2015
Presented at 2015 Southwest Indiana Melon and Vegetable Growers Annual Winter Technical Meeting December 3, 2015
Cantaloupe: 11 varieties; Triploid watermelon: 35 varieties Density Fertilizer
Fertilizer Rate (lb/acre) Urea (46-0-0) 300 Potassium chloride (0-0-60) 200 Diammonium phosphate (18-46-0) 100 Boron 14.3% 7 Pelletized lime 200
Cantaloupe: Bed spacing 6 ft, in-row spacing 2.5 ft Watermelon: Bed spacing 8 ft, in-row spacing 4 ft. Pollenizer ‘SP-6’, interplanted between every two triploid plants
Planting and Harvesting dates
Transplanting: May 14 Harvesting: cantaloupe (July 15 to July 31, 8 times); Watermelon (July 28, Aug 4, Aug 13)
Experimental design
Randomized complete block design, 3 blocks Cantaloupe: 22 plants per variety per plot; Watermelon: 12 triploid watermelons per variety per plot
5.93 4.19 4.64 3.41 3.23 7.44 3.07 1.85
average 2015
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average 2015
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Average yield among cultivars was 36,190 lb/acre
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Mean fruit weight (lb) of cantaloupe varieties
Distribution of the number of fruit in weight categories
Total soluble solids (°Brix) of cantaloupe varieties Flesh firmness (lbs-force) of cantaloupe varieties
6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5 9 9.5 10 10.5 11
6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5 9
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Yield (lb/acre) of triploid watermelon varieties on each harvest date, 2015
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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Yield (lb/acre) of triploid watermelon varieties on each harvest date, 2015
Distribution of the number of fruit in weight categories
5 10 15 20 25 30