Titly Kaiyum Talukder, Md. Mizanur Rahman,
Suraya Parvin, Nijhum Kaiyum Talukder, Kamal Uddin
Ahamed, Mohammad Mahbub Islam
Corresponding author’s Email: titly.k.talukder@gmail.com
Abstract
An
experiment was conducted to examine the effect of different growing structures
on summer tomato in rooftop garden during June to October 2016. In this
experiment three different kind of growing structures were used. The growing
structures were; earthen pot (E), concrete bed (C) and wooden bed (W). The
experimental results showed that plant growing structures significantly
influenced to change morpho-physiology, yield contributing characters and fruit
yield of summer tomato. The wooden structures (W) increased the plant height (125.6
cm), number of leaves plant-1 (98.81), number of branches plant-1
(15.63), leaf SPAD value (52.14), number of flower cluster plant‑1
(13.56), flowers plant‑1 (43.38) and fruit plant-1 (8.75),
the highest individual fruit weight (16.54g) and fruit yield plant-1
(146.6g). In contrast, the leaf water loss as measured in percent of fresh
weight was minimum (8.32) at earthen pot whereas it was maximum (9.15) at
concrete bed. Therefore it may be suggested that wooden structure on rooftop
garden increased yield of summer tomato by improving morpho-physiological and
yield contributing characters.
Key words: Rooftop garden; Summer tomato; Plant
growing structures; Yield.
