Evaluation of bottle gourd ( lagenaria siceraria ) to growth and yield

摘要

An experiment was conducted at Horticulture farm, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University to evaluate the growthand yield performance of eleven (L1 to L11) bottle gourd lines during the period from November 2013 to March2014. Maximum vine length (6.8 m), leaf area (975.4 cm2), number of fruit (14.3), fruit length (54.9 cm), singlefruit weight (1.43 kg), yield/plant (20.6 kg), yield/plot (82.0 kg) and yield/ha (50.1 ton) was found from L11followed by L10. On the other hand minimum sex ratio (male to female) (0.21), days to first male flowerappearance (37.3) and female flower appearance (41.0) was found from L.