Table 2.
Commercial yield and yield components of tomato grown under different nutrient conditions.
| Fertilizer | Yield per plant (kg·plant−1) n = 10 | Yield per area (kg·m−2) n = 10 | Mean fruit weight (g) n = 384-537 | Number of fruits (fruits·plant−1) n = 10 | Total number of trusses (truss·plant−1) n = 10 | Number of trusses with ripen tomato (truss·plant−1) n = 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organic waste-based | 3.7 ± 1.3ab | 15.9 ± 5.5ab | 94.2 ± 22.1a | 38.7 ± 10.1a | 14.5 ± 1.3ab | 6.3 ± 1.3ab |
| Low-mineral | 3.5 ± 1.0b | 15.0 ± 4.5b | 87.7 ± 23.2b | 39.6 ± 9.7a | 13.7 ± 1.7a | 5.8 ± 1.0a |
| High-mineral | 4.7 ± 0.9a | 20.286 ± 4.0a | 86.2 ± 18.6b | 54.4 ± 10.6b | 15.8 ± 1.0b | 7.5 ± 1.4b |
Mean values ± sd are shown. Different letters indicate statistically significant differences between treatments at p = 0.05.