Abstract:
The growth and yield of Sweet pepper in response to the effect of nutrient
solution and foliar application of Cow dung leachate as liquid organic fertilizer
was evaluated at the Horticulture Farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural
University, Dhaka-1207, during the period from September, 2018 to March
2019. Four types of foliar application of CDL viz. FA
= Control (no
application), FA
1
= 100 g/L leachate of cow dung, FA
2
0
= 150g/L CDL, FA
=
200 g/L CDL, and four types of Solution addition of liquid organic fertilizer,
NS
0
: Control (standard nutrient solution as Rahman and Inden), NS
= 100 g/L
CDL + standard nutrient solution, NS
= 150g/L CDL+ standard nutrient
solution, NS
3
2
= 200 g/L leachate of CDL + standard nutrient solution. The
experiment was conducted in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD)
with three replications. Physical properties, yield contributing parameters,
yield, and physiological properties were measured in this experiment. The
highest plant height (97.20 cm), early flowering, early fruiting, fruit length
(12.56 cm), fruit breadth (7.33 cm), fruit diameter (7.65 cm), fruit pericarp
thickness (6.04), fruit volume (189.36), no. of fruits/plant (8.56), individual
fruit weight (112.12 g), yield/ plant (959.76 g) were found in NS
which
was similar to NS
2
FA
Physiological parameters viz. leaf area (LA), leaf area
ratio (LAR) was also found in NS
2.
3
FA
and lower leaf mass ratio (LMR) and
root weight ratio (RWR) was acceptable for good result and NS
3
shows
lower result. So, NS
3
FA
3
showed best combination in this experiment
