Covering vines and mulching soil for improving of microclimatic, growth and fruit quality of Prime Seedless’ grapevines

Author : Aisha, S.A. Gaser; Ashraf, R. A. Farag and Abdel-Gawad, S. Ahmed

This investigation was carried out in a private farm located at South Tahrir, Badr town, Behaira Governorate, Egypt. Throughout the two following seasons (2018 and 2019) to examine the impact of plastic covering and mulching soil of Prime Seedless grapevines on their earliness, physical and chemical characteristics, microclimate, soil, growth, and fruit quality. Five treatments were carried out as follows: control, covering vines with white plastic, mulching soil with white plastic, mulching soil with black plastic and mulching soil with rice straw. Cover vine (white plastic) and soil mulch (white, black plastic and straw rice) treatments after dormex application pending the first day of January till last week of April. The results showed that cover vine (white plastic) and soil mulch (white, black plastic and straw rice) application had the best results in comparison with untreated in both seasons. In addition, covering vines with white plastic achieved the best results in early bud-burst, flowering and harvest time, improving microclimatic, vegetative growth, yield and physical and chemical characteristics of berries. While, mulching soil with black plastic gave the best result in soil temperature. The best net profit of Prime Seedless’ grapevines was obtained with covering vines with white plastic.

Keywords : Plastic covering; mulching soil; Grapes; Microclimatic; Yield; Fruit quality,

Received:11/2/2022 12:00:00 AM; Accepted: 12/20/2022 12:00:00 AM