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Sharafatullah Omari1, Najibullah Omerkhil*2, Gul Agha Sadiq3
1Department of Horticulture, Agriculture Faculty, Badakhshan University, Afghanistan.
Email: sharafatullah2017@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6996-1824
2Department of Forestry, Agriculture Faculty, Kunduz University, Afghanistan.
Email: n.omerkhilagr@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6932-9208
3Department of Horticulture, Agriculture Faculty, Kunduz University, Afghanistan.
Email: gulaghasadiq@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9276-9033
*Corresponding author
Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 6(1): 17-36. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.060102
Received: 25 January 2023
Reviewed: 19 February 2023
Provisionally Accepted: 27 February 2023
Revised: 17 March 2023
Finally Accepted: 21 March 2023
Published: 03 April 2023
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The present study was conducted for one growing season from 12th March 2022 to 15th July 2022 in Horticulture Research Farm at Agriculture Faculty of Kabul University in open field, with the specific objective of finding out the interaction influence of three plant density and four NPK doses as a treatment on the growth and yield parameters of Nahid-F1 variety of cucumber. The experiment was laid out following the Factorial Randomized Block Design (FRBD), with three replications consisting of combined three level of plant geometry viz. 75×35 cm (S1), 75×45 cm (S2) and 75×55 cm and four doses of NPK viz., control (F0), 60:30:30 (F1), 80:40:40 (F2) and 120:60:60 (F3) as a treatment. The data on growth attributes and yield contributing characteristics of cucumber crop were recorded and analyzed trough SPSS (22) software (2011) using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) for Factorial Randomized Black Design (FRBD). The results obtained from the current study reveal that all growth and yield characteristics under the study were remarkably influenced by plant density and dose of NPK and cucumber variety of Nahid-F1 performed better with T12 (75×55 cm + NPK 120:60:60), T8 (75×35 cm + NPK 120:60:60) and T3 (75×35 cm + NPK 80:40:40) in respect to the various growth and yield characteristics, such as number of branches, number of leaves per plant, plant height, stem girth, days to first flower bud initiation, days of first fruits picking, fruit length, fruit girth, average fresh fruit weight, number of fruits per plant, number of fruit per vine, yield per square meter and yield per hectare. While T1 (75×35 cm + control), T5 (75×45 cm + control) and T9 (75×55 cm + control) did not show any superiority in any growth and yield attributes as evaluated in Kabul agro-climatic region. Thus, T8 and T12 could be recommended to the farmers of Kabul province for better cucumber production in Kabul agro-climatic condition in Central Afghanistan.
Cucumber; Growth; Kabul; Plant geometry; Variety; Yield
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