2024, Vol. 7, Issue 7, Part F

A research study entitled "Effect of Potting Media and Biocapsule on Growth, Yield, and Quality of Strawberry cv. Winter Dawn under Polyhouse Cultivation," was conducted at the Department of Horticulture, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj (U.P.) between 2023 and 2024. The experiment comprises of twelve treatments and three replications involving various doses of garden soil, vermicompost, cocopeat, farmyard manure, biocapsule, and their combinations.

The main aim of this experiment was to find out the effect on growth, yield and quality of strawberry plants with the used of various soilless and soil media. The experiment was carried out according to Completely Randomized Block Design. According to the findings of this study, T11 {Cocopeat + FYM + Biocapsule (1:1:@500ppm)} was found to be the most effective treatment with overall well-being including growth, yield, fruit character, quality. Plant height of 18.22 cm in 120 DAP, number of leaves with 26.66 in 120 DAP, plant spread with 16.22 cm in 120DAP, survival percentage with 88.66%, days taken to flowering with58.55 and days taken to fruiting with 68.11, fruit polar diameter with 5.66 cm, fruit radial diameter with 3.83 cm, fruit weight with 31.22gm, no. of fruits with 14.55, total yield of 326.66gm, TSS of 11.89°B, titratable acidity with 0.60% were recorded on T11 as the best among the twelve treatments. This treatment also recorded the highest B: C ratio of 1.72.