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HUMATES OF VERMICOMPOST AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE GROWTH TRAITS OF TOMATO (Solanum lycopersicum L.)

Abstract:

Vegetable growth bioestimulants are natural substances for crop treatments as activators of the physiological functions, so their application allows a better use of the nutrients and represent an appropriate option to face problems of soil fertility. The objective of the present study was to determine the effect of vermicompost humates on morphometric variables in tomato seedling. The experimental design was totally random with factorial arrangement whose factors were tomato variety Amalia, vermicompost humates dilutions (0 and 1/40, 1/50, 1/60 v/v) with six repetitions per treatment. Variance analysis and independent comparisons of means (p = 0.05) were performed. The experiment was carried out in 2013 in Granma, Cuba, in mesh shade and the radicle lenght, traits height, fresh and dry biomass of radicle and of air parts were measured. There were significant differences for all the variables (p.0.05), showing …