Produção de mudas de morangueiro fora do solo sob diferentes concentrações de nitrogênio nas matrizes e datas de plantio das mudas na região sul do RS

Abstract

The seedling production phase is an important step in the strawberry production chain, since the plants in soil cultivation need to be renewed annually, due to the accumulation of diseases and pests from one year of cultivation to another, resulting in low productivity. The study aimed to evaluate the effect of nitrogen concentration on the production and quality of botted plant produced from suspended matrices under cultivation soilless and assess the behavior of these seedlings in the field with different planting dates for the Pelotas-RS city. The evaluated factors were: cultivar (Aromas, Camarosa, Festival and Oso Grande), nutrient solution (standard '1' and half of the amount of nitrogen '2') in experiment 1 and cultivar (Aromas, Camarosa, Festival and Oso Grande), and planting dates (03/16, 04/01 and 04/16) in experiment 2, conducted in an experimental area belonging to Embrapa Clima Temperado, in Pelotas, RS, during the years of 2015 and 2016. The system of production of seedlings soilless studied in this period is efficient, because the cultivars Camarosa, Festival and Oso Grande express their productive potential, in relation to the high number of propagules produced by the matrix plant, obtained in PelotasRS. In addition to supplying plants in advance to the production chain. The smaller amount of nitrogen provided favors greater production of stolons and seedlings per plant. Planting between march and april (early for the region, normally occurs between the May late and early June, when the imported seedlings arrive to the growers) is a viable alternative to the growers, to obtain an early production and in a period in which the product is more valued and reach more profit. The early and total productions obtained are high, and how more anticipated the plantinning date is better production per plant is obtained, being 'Camarosa' and 'Festival' the most productive under the conditions of the study.