Produção de mudas por estaquia e cultivo protegido de maracujazeiro-amarelo.

Abstract

To obtain high production and quality on cultivation of yellow passion fruits, is necessary environmental conditions, nutrition and appropriate management techniques, and the use of quality seedlings to form the orchard. This study aimed to evaluate the production of seedlings by cutting and protected cultivation of yellow passion fruit. This is described in three chapters, corresponding to the experiments. In the first chapter, the objective was to evaluate the cutting rooting three cultivars of yellow passion fruit (BRS Gigante Amarelo, BRS Ouro Vermelho and BRS Sol do Cerrado) using different doses of indolebutyric acid (0, 1000 and 2000mg L-1). 45 days after, were evaluated the percentage of rooted cuttings, the average length of the longest root, the percentage of cuttings with presence of leaf, the average number of roots per cutting and percentage of cuttings viable. The cultivars BRS Sol do Cerrado and BRS Gigante Amarelo had higher index of rooting. The use of IBA did not affect its rooting percentage, but the concentration of 2000mg L-1 provided the highest number of roots per cutting. In the second chapter, was evaluated the growth and biomass of seedlings of three cultivars of yellow passion fruit (BRS Gigante Amarelo, BRS Ouro Vermelho and BRS Sol do Cerrado) in hydroponic growing system and semi-hydroponic. Was evaluated the length of the shoots at 20, 40, 60 and 80 days, the mass of fresh matter and dry matter of shoots and roots. The semi-hydroponic system showed the biggest length of shoots at 80 days after transplanting. The mass of fresh matter of shoots was bigger in BRS Gigante Amarelo. The fresh and dry mass of shoot and dry mass of root were higher in the semi-hydroponic system. The fresh mass of roots was higher in seedlings of BRS Gigante Amarelo and BRS Ouro Vermelho in the semi-hydroponic system, and lower in the BRS Ouro Vermelho in the hydroponics. In the third chapter, were evaluated parameters relating to the development and production of plants and the physicochemical characteristics of the fruits of two cultivars of yellow passion fruit (BRS Gigante Amarelo and BRS Sol do Cerrado) in conditions of greenhouse in hydroponic systems type NFT, testing two types of systems of conduction (vertical espalier with two secondary branches and vertical espalier with four secondary branches). The plants of cv. BRS Gigante Amarelo showed higher amount of quaternaries branches and growth of trunk diameter, induced by the system with two secondary branches, and precocity of flowering. The system with four branches contributed to the harvest precocity and greater number of tertiary branches. Aspects concerning the production have not suffered influences of systems of conduction and cultivars. Plant cultivation with four branches did not increase the production. The physical and chemical characteristics on the fruits were not influenced by the conduction system, however the BRS Gigante Amarelo obtained higher medial length on fruits, thickness of peel and acidity in the juice.