Evaluación morfológica y nutricional de dos híbridos de tomate (Solanum lycopersicum), bajo invernadero en La Hacienda La Piedad, prov. de Santa Elena.

Abstract

The objective of this work was to evaluate the morphological and nutritional parameters (sap analysis) of two tomato hybrids in greenhouses, the study was carried out at the farm La Piedad Prov. Santa Elena. The experimental design was completely randomized blocks with two treatments and 10 repetitions per block. The morphological variables (total height, distance between clusters, fruit diameter, number of fruits and stem diameter) and sap analysis (nitrate, calcium and potassium) were evaluated weekly. The statistical analysis was an ANOVA and a test of least significant differences. As a result, it was obtained that the morphological variables (stem diameter, distances between clusters and number of fruits) did not find significant differences. The variables of fruit diameter and height did show significant differences. In the nutritional variables potassium and nitrate there are no significant differences, however, the concentration of calcium during the ripening stage found significant differences which may be related to the characteristics of the varieties but both are within the recommended sufficiency levels..