Introducción de tres híbridos de tomate hortícola (Lycopersicum esculentum L.) a las condiciones climáticas de Huachi Grande-Ambato

Abstract

The tomato crop (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is a vegetable that is consumed worldwide and is marketed in different markets, due to its high nutritional value; however, there is a wide variety of horticultural tomatoes on the market for fresh consumption or For industries, which are produced throughout the year and in different parts of the world and due to their high economic value, they are grown outdoors or under plastic covers, which improves the yield in each production. The present investigation was carried out in the Huachi Grande Parish, the objective was the introduction of three new horticultural tomato hybrids to the climatic conditions of the sector, which is between an average of 14.5 ° C. The completely randomized block design and the SPSS Statistics program were used using the Scheffe test for a significance level of p<0.05. The introduced hybrids were Alyanak F1, Firat, Hybrix, and a commercial control Daniela, each of them have specific characteristics that differentiate it from one another and their variables to study were plant height, stem diameter, height at first bunch, distance between bunches, number of fruits per bunch, equatorial diameter, polar diameter and yield in kg/h in a period of 20, 60, 80 days. The treatment that obtained a superior result was Hybrix (TO-HY100055), with a stem height of 173 cm, with a greater number of fruits 9 and distance between clusters 33 cm, and with a yield of 22.2 kg/ha while the hybrid Firat its yield was 22.0 kg/ha and the Daniela obtained 18.6 kg/ha with the same distance between clusters with 29 cm and with different stem heights with 158 cm and 147 cm.