Effects of organic fertilizer dose and shoot pruning on the quantity and quality of the product of cucumber (Cucumissativus l.)

Increasing the quantity and quality of cucumber plants can be done through fertilizing and shoot pruning. The right dose can help fulfill the nutritional needs of plants and shoot pruning causes the distribution of nutrients provided by fertilizer to be more focused on the development of generative organs. The design used a split plot design (SPD) 2 factors, namely the dose of organic fertilizer as a sub plot and shoot pruning as the main plot. The treatment doses of organic fertilizer were 30 kg ha-1 (D1), 35 kg ha-1 (D2), 40 kg ha-1 (D3) and 45 kg ha-1 (D4). Meanwhile, the shoot pruning treatments were without shoot pruning (P0), shoot pruning the 15th segment of main stem (P1), and shoot pruning the 20th segment of main stem (P2). Data analysis using Anova and continued with Tukey Test 5%. The research did not produce interaction between the combination of organic fertilizer doses and shoot pruning in all observation parameters. The dose of organic fertilizer produced a significant effect on the number of fruit per plant and fruit weight per plant, while the shoot pruning treatment produced a significant effect on the fruit weight per plant and diameter of the cucumber fruit. Treatment with organic fertilizer dose of 45 kg/ha and shoot pruning the 15th segment of main stem gave the highest yield.