Influence of seedling size and plant spacing on earliness and yield of tomato grown in plastic house

Abstract EN

An experiment was conducted during 1988 and 1990 to investigate the effect of three seedling sizes (less than 5; 5 to 8 and greater than 8 true leaves) and three plant spacings (20, 30 and 40 cm apart) pn earliness ang yield Of tomato cv.

Monte Carlo.

Results shoycdthat transplanti_ng large seedling produced the highest ear- ly yield percentage and early yield components.

Planting at 40 cm apart produced the highest plant total yield and lowest plastic houseareå yield.

Transplanting seedlings of 5 to 8 true leaves at 20 cm produced maximum plastic house yie!d, whereas, transplanting the same sizeat 40 cm produced maximum plant total yield components.