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More viable flowers, better setting, and better fruit fill with Equilibrium® in Costa Rica.

Wednesday, 03 July 2019
Field Experience | Horticultural | Equilibrium®

The addition of Equilibrium® to leaf applications of tomato crop nutrition programmes significantly increases not only the presence of viable flowers and the setting of later fruit but also prepares the plant for better fruit fill and widens the crop interval.


Trial data:

  • Location: Grecia, Costa RicaCrop: Tomato var. 8565
  • Conditions: July-September (rainy season, stress from excess water)
  • Plot size: 0.5 HaNumber and time applications: 10 applications, from week 6 (45DDT) to week 16 (120DDT).

TREATMENTS

DOSE

Equilibrium

1.5L/Ha (600L water volume)

Usual std.

-

 

Results:

Sample in flower (count of total flowers at 30, 45, and 60 DDA):

Measurement date

Flowers per plant

Usual std.

EQUILIBRIUM

9 Aug

16.00

19.00

23 Aug

22.00

28.00

6 Sep

29.00

36.00

AVERAGE

22.33

27.67

Treatment with Equilibrium increases the number of flowers by 24%.

KG EQUI

As can be observed, the harvested area with leaf applications of Equilibrium® show a considerable increase in the different fruit classification categories in the market and at the general level, especially the top category with the highest commercial value with almost 50% more than the usual standard.

Conclusions:

Constant leaf applications of Equilibrium® can achieve an increase in the amount of fruit and their weight as well as encourage an increase in the first size of the fruit (first and second) of the first harvests and a larger harvest overall.

EQ vs STD

(On the left: Equilibrium; On the right: STD)

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