Pepper cultivar trail in a walk in tunnel, Zohar research station, Sodom Valley 2007/8
Vegetablesתחום או ענף ירקות
תאריך עדכון 24/1/2009
תיאור מלא In the 2007/8 growing season, pepper production in walk-in tunnels covered an area of 2,000 dunams (200 hectares) in the central Arava and Sodom Valley, among the 16,000 dunams of pepper production in this area. Most of the tunnels were located in Sodom Valley. This area occupies a unique niche, with a climate that is well-suited to pepper production. The particularly mild winters in this area allow for continued vegetative growth and fruit setting. This year, as every year, a cultivar trial was conducted at the Zohar Research Station in Sodom Valley, which included cultivars developed in Israel as well as cultivars from foreign companies. The pepper cultivars were transplanted (10 September 2007) in a walk-in tunnel (with a 6.40 m opening) covered with polyethylene. The tunnel was covered with an additional shade net for the first month after transplanting. The experiment included 29 red cultivars, 10 yellow cultivars and 4 orange cultivars. The plants in the tunnel were arranged in individual rows along the length of the side walls and in three pairs of internal rows. Harvesting began on 23 December 2007 and continued through 13 May 2008; there were 12 harvests in all, and 142 harvest days. The fruit was sorted according to the accepted export standards. Export-quality fruit was stored at the Quality Laboratory at the Yair Research Situation, in a situation that simulated the conditions under which exported fruit is stored and transported. The fruit was stored for 17 days at 7ºC and 95% relative humidity and for three days at 20ºC. The fruit was then re-examined to determine its shelf-life and quality after storage. The overall yield of the cultivars in the trial ranged from 8.0 to 11.6 kg/m2, with no clear differences between cultivars. The yield of export-quality fruit ranged from 3.7 to 6.8 kg/m2, with clear differences between some of the cultivars. Of the yellow cultivars that were examined, Ballet 4405 (Limona), which is an early-ripening cultivar, had a high yield, produced good quality fruit and had a low rate of old fruit. High yields and good quality were also noted for the red cultivar 14511 Bungee, which displayed an intermediate level of early ripening, showed no defects at sorting and had no old fruit following the storage period; and the red cultivar 1097. Of the yellow cultivars, notable results were recorded for 2125 - which displayed a lot of early ripening (50% of the fruit for export was harvested in January), had no old fruit and produced large and uniform fruit – and the cultivar TOP 79, which displayed an intermediate level of early-ripening (only 10% of the fruit for export was harvested in January), produced medium-sized fruit and had no old fruit in the storage test. We propose that these cultivars be included in an additional cultivar trial.
שפה English
מחבר Yoram Zvieli, Ami Maduel, Moran Kapon Patel, Rivka Offenbach, Israel Tzabari, Rami Golan, Eviater Itiel, Itzik Posalsky
שנה 2009
שייכות yzvieli
תאריך יצירה 24/1/2009
תאריך עדכון 25/1/2009
