BOKASHI USE IN THE PASSIONFRUIT (Passiflora edulis L.) GERMINATION AND INITIAL GROWTH

• Published in: Poljoprivreda i šumarstvo Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 101 - 111
• Main Authors: Almeida BOCOLI, Fernanda, Aparecida MARCON, Jaqueline, IZIDORO, Maiqui, de Toledo BORTOLON, Pedro, Emílio Rodrigues de OLIVEIRA, Sérgio, SPALEVIC, Velibor, Sérgio de SOUZA, Paulo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Titograd University of Montenegro, Biotechnical Faculty 15-12-2020
• Subjects: Aeration; Commercialization; Composting; Crop production; Cultivars; Cultivation; Fertilizers; Fruits; Germination; Microorganisms; Nutrients; Organic matter; Passiflora edulis; Passion fruit; Plant diseases; Rice; Seedlings; Seeds; Soil physics; Substrates; Brazil
• DOI: 10.17707/AgricultForest.66.4.08
• EISSN: 1800-9492
• ISSN: 0554-5579

INTRODUCTION The passion fruit (Passiflora edulis L.) has as its birthplace tropical America and high relevance to the Brazilian fruticulture, once Brazil is the largest sour passionfruit producer and consumer in the world, being its fruits utilized as much to juice, sweet and sauces production as in natural consumption. Since this is a fruit culture in highlight into the national market, it very important to attempt on all cultivation aspects, from cultivar choose, seedlings production, crop handling until its harvest and commercialization, to thereby being optimized its production chain procedures. According to Melo and Tavares (2001), to a good passion fruit seedlings production, it must have to attempt to the utilized substrate characteristics, being important its organic matter content, adequate nutrients concentration, and good aeration, besides being pathogenic agents free. [...]the commercial substrates generally do not provide organic sources mostly, beyond being costly to the producer. [...]it is indispensable the creation and test of new quality and unexpansive mechanisms to seedlings production. According to Ishimura (2004), the bokashi possess several favorable characteristics on the agriculture, once afford rapid nutrients release, assists on soil physics aspects, as its structure maintenance, besides also support in some diseases and pest's prevention and control, once it has a microorganism's broad range, introduced with the EM utilization, prepared from organism's virgin forest collected.