The Influence Of Priming Two Cucumber Cultivar Seeds

J. Duhok Univ. Vol.13, No.1, (Agri. And Vet. Sciences) Pp 60-69, 2010
were picked under water directly (33.30%), and
this value was better to the other two cuttings
which amounted to a maximum when flowers
were picked in the water directly (46.21%). In
the impact of the interaction effect of overlap in
the average percentage of opening petals, the
highest value was recorded when the flowers
were taken at non opening sepals stage and
opening sepals stage when flowers were picked
and placed in the water after 10 minutes and
when flowers picked and placed in water directly
(100.00%), in return for taking the flowers in the
last three stages when the flowers picked in the
three methods, and the lowest percentage was
0.00% .
Table (3):- The effect of the stage of harvesting flowers and method of harvest and their interaction affect on the
average percentage of opening petals Rosa cv. Queen Elizabeth after 14 days pos harvesting.
Stage of flowers
harvesting
cutting the flowers
and putting them in
water after 10
minutes
The method of flowers harvesting
cutting the flowers
and putting them
directly in water
cutting the
flowers under
water directly
Effect of
flowers
harvesting
stage
Non opening sepals 100.00 a 100.00 a 87.50 bc 95.83 a
Semi opened sepals 100.00 a 100.00 a 79.00 c 93.00 a
Non opening petals 0.00 d 0.00 d 0.00 d 0.43 b
Semi opened petals 0.00 d 0.00 d 0.00 d 0.00 c
Full petals opening 0.00 d 0.00 d 0.00 d 0.00 c
Effect of method of flowers
harvesting
40.00 a 46.21 a 33.30 b
Means followed by the same letters within each factor orinteraction don't differ significantly (p≥ 0.05)
according to Duncan's multiple .
Table (4) shows that the age of direct cutting
affected the fall of petals were obtained at the
highest average of petals per cent when the
flowers are taken at the stage of full opening
petals reached 97.35%, followed by a semi
opened petals, with an average ratio of the
percentage fall petals (94,495%) and surpassed
the stage of the other cut methods, reaching a
minimum per cent at picking the flowers in the
non opening sepals stage 55.55%. The highest
average percentage of fall petals was recorded
(90.83%) when the flowers were taken then
placed in water after 10 minutes, on the other
hand, the lowest average percentage fall petals
(72.57%) was recorded when the flowers were
picked under water directly. The lowest average
percentage fall petals was obtained when the
flowers picked under water directly in non
opening stage (43.74) as compared with the
highest average percentage of fall petals (100%)
when the flowers picked and then placed in the
water after 10 minutes and when the flowers
taken and then placed in the water in the last
three stages.
Table (4):- The effect of harvesting stage flowers and method of harvest and their interaction affect on the
average percentage of falling dawn petals Rosa cv. Queen Elizabeth after 14 days pos harvesting.
Stage of flowers
harvesting
cutting the flowers and
putting them in water
after 10 minutes
The method of flowers harvesting
cutting the flowers
and putting them
directly in water
cutting the
flowers under
water directly
Effect of
flowers
harvesting
stage
Non opening sepals 56.25 e 66.68 de 43.74 e 55.55 c
Semi opened sepals 97.90 bc 85.40 cd 81.23 cd 88.17 b
Non opening petals 100.00 a 100.00 a 62.53 de 87.51 b
Semi opened petals 100.00 a 100.00 a 83.32 cd 94.44 a
Full petals opening 100.00 a 100.00 a 72.06 c 97.35 a
Effect of method of flowers
harvesting
90.83 a 90.41 a 72.57 b
Means followed by the same letters within each factor or interaction don't differ significantly
(p≥ 0.05) according to Duncan's multiple .
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