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Scientific Papers Series B Horticulture

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The pH of soil was considered calcarous. Thenutrient content of soil in nitrogen was low, inphosphorus very good and in potash good.The test variety was Spirit, a normal sweet cornwith a very early growing period (85 days).Average plant height is 159 cm, ear height is 37cm. Average ear length was 19.6 cm in thevariety comparison trials carried out by theCentral Agricultural Office and average earweight was 245 g (Kovács, 2002).The following treatments were applied duringthe experiment:P1 = uncovered direct seeded (April 8 th ), P2 =covered direct seeded (April 8 th ), P3 = covereddirect seeded (April 21 th ), P4 = the control,uncovered direct seeded (April 21 th ).By both sowing times (April 8 th and April 21 th )a part of the stand was covered with Novagrylfloating row cover having a weight of 19 g/m 2at the two propagation times in order toenhance earliness. The floating row cover wasremoved on May 13 th . The stand was created tocontain 60,607 plants per hectare, according tothe recommendations of the owner of thevariety, at a spacing of 110+40x22 cm in twinrows. Each plot had an area of 6x7m (8 parallelrows and 30 seeds sown in each row). The edgewas the outer two rows of the 8 rows of theplot, respectively. All treatments were set up infour replications.Fertilization was done by top dressing with N.No farmyard manure was applied.During the experiment, we studied some plantmorphological properties according to thefollowing:highness of plants (cm), length of tassels (cm),Ears, together with the husks, were collectedfrom the four central (two twin) rows. Afterthat 20 ears of average appearance wereselected from each row and the followingmeasurements were carried out: unhusked earweight (gram), total ear length (cm), depth ofseeds (mm).The statistical analysis of the results wascarried out by using the programme RopStat1.1. When the standard deviations wereidentical the mean values were compared bypairs using the Tukey-Kramer test, while in thecase of the non identical standard deviations themeans were compared using the Games-Howelltest (Vargha, 2007).RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONSThe highness of plants (cm) is represented inthe figure 1.Figure 1. Highness of plantsThe effect of covering (P2) was favourable onplant high compared to uncovered (P1)treatment by earlier sowing time. The highestvalue of plant highness was registered by plantsof (P4 control) treatment, difference wassignificantly (at p

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