Assessment of the limitation of potting size on the performance of young fig plant in greenhouse

Abstract

This thesis present a research regarding the performance of Fig plant that is grown under limitation potting size in a Greenhouse. Nowadays, Malaysia imported most of Fig’s Product into the country due to demand of consumer. To put it in another way, Malaysia consist the qualities to grow Figs due to good environment such as good weather and compatible soil. This proposed projects mainly focus in studying the performance of Fig plant for 12 weeks by analysing the soil moisture content, number of leaf, surface area of leaf, water loss and length of shoot. The fig plant is planted in 6 replications and divided into two different size of pot that were labelled as Media A and Media B. The results from this study shows that the soil moisture content before and after irrigation for Media A and Media B were 12.76%, 23.33%,11.83% and 24.12% respectively. The R² value for number of leaf for Media A and Media B were 0.6516 and 0.8508 respectively. Besides that, Media A had the highest value for average surface of leaf which was 9.3 on week 10 while the lowest average number of surface area of leaf was Media B which was 2.3 on week 3. For water loss, Media A showed an increasing trend throughout the experiment with the value of 0.5985 while Media B showed a tad of decreasing trend throughout the experiment with the value of 0.0152. Furthermore, the highest average length of shoot recorded were 32.58 cm by Media B on week 12 while the lowest average length of shot recorded were 30.56 cm by Media A on week 1. All things considered, the finalize results proved that Media A acquired the most promising media which can perform great under the limitation of potting size in a greenhouse.