Department of Horticulture, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru – 560 065, Karnataka, India
*Madhuri RK E mail: madhuri.pallu77@gmail.com
Received on 26 June, 2017.
Field experiments were conducted to study the performance of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) under both open field and polyhouse condition at the Division of Horticulture, UAS, Bangalore. The experiment was laid out in Factorial randomized complete block design with two main and sub treatments with five replications. The results revealed that the plants grown under polyhouse recorded significantly higher TSS of pulp (10.67°Brix), total sugars (5.10%), reducing sugar (1.72%), non reducing sugar (3.38%), sugar to acid ratio (14.57) and organoleptic evaluation of the fruit (4.46) whereas, less titratable acidity (0.35%) was noticed under open field condition. From this investigation, it can be concluded that cultivation under polyhouse leads to improvement in the fruit quality characters.
Watermelon, cv. Kiran, polyhouse, open field, fruit quality characters
