Fruit Setting Behaviour of Passion Fruit

Passion fruit has

great prospective to fascinate fruit consumer for its taste and delicious fruit

juice and improvement of the economic condition of the fruit grower in the

developing countries. The self-incompatibility in the passion fruits is

an imperative reason to be considered regarding fruit production. Pollination is an essential for self-sterile crops as passion fruit (Passiflora

edulis Sims.). The

experiment was conducted in the field and laboratories of the Bangabandhu

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Salna, Gazipur, Bangladesh to

investigate the fruit setting behavior of passion fruits at during five

flashes. We estimated to study fruit setting behavior of passion fruit at

different flashes and determine effective pollination method and suitable

flashes among five flashes. Result revealed that percent of fruit set of

passion fruit was recorded highest; Seeds per plant were recorded highest in

third flash when flowers were pollinated by hand compared with self-, and

natural pollinations. Length-breadth ratios of fruits in third flashes were

recorded higher when pollinates by hand. Individual fruit weight was also

recorded higher at third flash. Plants required minimum days from flower

anthesis to full maturity during third flash. On the other hand, fruit growth behavior of hand pollinated

flowers was recorded higher during third flash of passion fruit. Results

indicated that all studied

characteristics of

fruit and seed of passion fruit of third flash performed best.