Fruit Quality Characters and Seedlessness in Watermelon

A field experiment was conducted during 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 seasons at Herbal garden, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India to study the influence of exogenous application of CPPU and GA yield, 3 fruit quality characters and seedlessness in watermelon. The experiment consists of 12 treatments (CPPU-50 ppm (T ), CPPU-100 ppm (T2), CPPU-200 ppm (T3), GA -100 ppm(T ), GA -200 ppm(T ), CPPU 50 ppm + GA 1 3 4 3 5 3 100 ppm(T ), CPPU 50 ppm + GA 200 ppm (T ), CPPU 100 ppm + GA 100 ppm(T ), CPPU 100 ppm + GA 200 6 3 7 3 8 3 ppm(T ), CPPU 200 ppm + GA 100 ppm(T ), CPPU 200 ppm + GA 200 ppm(T ) and untreated control(T ). 9 3 10 3 11 12 The mean fruit set (47.83) was maximum in plants treated with CPPU 200 ppm + GA 100 ppm (T ). The mean 3 10 fruit weight (3.56 kg) was maximum in plants treated with CPPU 100 ppm + GA 100 ppm (T ). The mean 3 8 number of normal seeds (28.00) were minimum in plants treated with CPPU 200 ppm (T ). The mean total 3 soluble solids content (12.27) was maximum in plants treated with CPPU 200 ppm + GA 100 ppm (T ). 3 10 The total sugars content (11.87) was maximum in plants treated with CPPU 200 ppm + GA 100 ppm (T ). 3 10 Significant differences were not observed among the treatments with respect to lycopene content.