EFFECT OF NITROGEN APPLICATION METHODS ON THE GROWTH AND YIELD OF RIDGE GOURD (LUFFA ACUTANGULLA)

Study was conducted In RCBD Design with three replicates to examine the impact of nitrogen application methods on the growth and yield of ridge gourd, evaluating 06 treatments comprising of various soil and foliar-applied N combinations. The following treatments were used: T1=Control (no N applied to the surface, no N applied to the leaves): T2=N at 75kg ha-1 through soil; T3=N at 75 kg ha-1 through soil+foliar urea at 1.5% concentration; T4=N at 75 kg ha-1 through soil+foliar urea at 3.0% concentration; T5=N at 100 kg ha-1 through soil; T6=N at100 kg ha-1 through soil+foliar urea at 1.5% concentration;T5=N at 100 kgha-1through soil+foliar urea at 1.5% concentration; The findings showe that various nitrogen application approaches had a major impact on all of the ridge gourd parameters calculated in this analysis (P0.05). With i258.33cm ivine iduration, 7.75 branchesivine-1, 11.26 fruits vine-1,i281.38giaverageisingle-fruitiweight, 3.25kg weightiofiridgeigourd fruitiperivine, 36.30kg ridge gourd fruit yield plot-1 and 14520.55kg ridge gourdifruit yieldiha-1, the ridge gourd vines plantediunderiT6 (N at 100kg ha-1 by soil+foliariapplicationiofiurea at 1.5%iconcentration)iratediforibothivine growthiand ridge igourd yield characteris-tics, the ridgeigourd cropifertilisediwith N at 100k ha-1 through oiliranked second, N at 75kg ha-1 through soil + foliar application ofiureaiati3.0%iconcentrationiranked third, N at 75kg ha-1 through the soil+foliar application of ureaiat 1.5% concentration ranked fourth, and N at 75 kg ha-1 through soil without foliariurea ranked fifth. Onialliof the characteristics tested, the controliplots came inilast.