Vegetative Potential of Sweet Pepper

Table 1 shows the plant height of lettuce variety Grand Emperor grown under two different planting mediums. Although there were no great significance observed between treatments, data revealed that T2 (decayed rice straw) appeared to obtain taller plant height (6.50cm) than T1 (garden soil) at 5.41 cm. These results could be best described in Figures 1, 2 and 3 showing the growth performance of lettuce grown under two different mediums. The growth and performance of the crop under T2 implied that it contains more nutrients and has good soil structure necessary for plant growth as compared to T1 which was shorter due to lack of nutrients available and poor soil structure.

Furthermore, there were no big differences between treatments in terms of number of leaves. However, T2 appeared to produce the greater number of leaves (4.53cm) as compared to T1 which produced only an average of 4.98 cm. These data coincides with the result in the plant height of lettuce where T2 got the tallest height thus, produced the greater number of leaves (Table 2 and Figure 4).

Table 3 presents the leaf area of lettuce grown under two different mediums. Data revealed that T1 and T2 almost appeared to have the same average leaf area. T1 got 54.85cm and T2 got 53.99cm. Figure 5 shows the comparative performance between the two treatments.

Table 1. Plant Height of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) variety Grand Emperor as affected           

              by different planting mediums.

Treatments	Plant Height (cm)				Treatment Total	Treatment Mean
	W1	W2	W3	W4
T1 = Plain garden Soil         (Control)	2.66	4.82	6.27	7.88	21.63	5.41
T2 = Decayed Rice         Straw	2.39	5.1	8.16	10.33	25.98	6.50

 

·         = Average of 10 replicates per treatment

·         1 plant per replicate

Table 2. Number of leaves of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) variety Grand Emperor as    influenced by different planting mediums.

Treatments	Number of Leaves				Treatment Total	Treatment Mean
	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4
T1 = Plain garden Soil   (control)	2.29	4.50	4.1	4.50	15.39	3.85
T2 = Decayed Rice Straw	2.80	5.40	5.40	4.50	18.1	4.53

 

·         = Average of 10 replicates per treatment

·         1 plant per replicate