Effects of subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) and plastic mulching on melon crop under protect environment / Influência do gotejamento subterrâneo e do "mulching" plástico na cultura do melão em ambiente protegido

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2007

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This work aims to quantify melon yield, quantitative and qualitative aspects, as well to observe water and ions distribution (nitrate and potassium) in the root zone for two soils: Yellow Red Latossol (Sandy loam soil) and Red Argissol (Clay soil), under plastic mulching and subsurface drip irrigation (0.20 m and 0.40 m from the soil surface). Melon cycle occurred between november, 2005 until january, 2006. The research site was a greenhouse (330 m2) located at the University of São Paulo (ESALQ/USP), Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The experimental design was four randomized complete blocks. The treatments were comprised of 24 experimental units for each soil. Soil moisture evaluated by tensiometric batteries, and the nitrate, potassium, pH and EC values by soil solution based on extractors of ceramic capsules disposal at depths of 0.10 m, 0.30 m, and 0.50 m and horizontal distances of 0.10 m, 0.20 m, 0.30 m and 0.40 from the plant, and by soil sampling as shallow depths of 0.04 m, 0.08 m, and 0.12 m at the same horizontal distances from the plant. The plastic mulching increased the height plant, stem diameter, plant production, longitudinal diameter and pulp thickness of the fruit for the sandy loam and clay soil, and transversal diameter, format of the fruit, soluble solids levels and pH of the fruit for the clay soil. The subsurface drip irrigation at 0.20 m from the surface soil provided larger fruit average mass and plant production to sandy loam soil and make influence in pH of the fruit to clay soil. It was not possible to find treatments effects for the nitrate distribution at sandy loam and clay soils due the complex nitrate dynamics in the soil. The subsurface drip irrigation at 0.20 m and without plastic mulching made available more potassium concentration at the melon root absorption zone for the sandy loam soil, from 47 and 63 days after planting, when the blooming started until to frutification period. To clay soil the mulching effect was more evident at the potassium distribution than the subsurface drip irrigation. For both soils, without mulching, subsurface drip irrigation at 0.20 m showed larger water productivity compared to 0.40 m and surface drip irrigation treatments.

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potássio potassium root zone irrigação por gotejamento drip irrigation system protect environment (plants) sistema radicular ambiente protegido (plantas) melão nitratos melon crop nitrate

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