Table 6.

Mean square value for the main and interaction effects of blended NPSB fertilizer rates and intra-row spacing on phonological, yield, yield related and quality parameters of eggplant.

Variables	Rep	NPSB	Intra-row spacing	NPSBaInt-r. S	Error	CV
Degree of freedom	2	4	2	8	28
Days to 50 % flowering	28.29	1458.03b	213.76c	20.95ns	21.17	8.05
Days to first fruit harvest	2.47	86.97c	213.27c	4.1b	1.18	1.34
Plant height	2.76	709.22c	402.54c	10.97ns	6.80	3.60
Number of branches/plant	1.16	67.16c	101.77c	2.38b	0.39	4.69
Leaf area	26.31	1735.09c	3776.58c	37.24ns	30.97	8.18
Number of leaves/plant	40.55	3539.63c	5087.81b	195.37b	26.80	5.85
Number of fruits/plant	4.06	269.27c	136.74c	1.41ns	3.94	13.88
Fruit length	0.98	38.50c	14.18c	1.70ns	0.96	8.74
Fruit diameter	1.07	64.83c	18.74b	1.71a	0.67	9.59
MFFY	19.34	4834.39c	4959.75c	348.85c	26.86	7.59
UMFFY	0.25	1464.01b	790.12b	54.59a	3.45	8.53
FFYPP	0.22	11.63b	11.26b	0.27b	0.07	7.08
TFFY	22.23	5735.08c	3279.74c	336.14b	27.79	5.85
Dry matter content (%)	0.24	5.92b	5.88b	0.24ns	0.24	5.46
TSS (0Brix)	0.03	3.85c	0.42b	0.014ns	0.002	1.15

Mean square value for the main and interaction influence of blended NPSB fertilizer and intra-row plant spacing on phonological, yield, and quality parameters on eggplant.

Whereas; MFFY = marketable fresh fruit yield, UMFFY = unmarketable fresh fruit yield, TFFY = total fresh fruit yield; TSS = total soluble solute; CV = coefficient of variation.

^aimplies significance level (p≤ 0.05)

^bimplies significance level (p≤ 0.01)

^cimplies significance level (p≤ 0.001)