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Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Major in Crop Science)

This study on the influence of nodal pinching in flowering and yield components of eggplant (Solanum melongena L) aimed to find out the effect of nodal pinging in terms of number of flowers, number of fruits, fruit length, fruit weight, marketable fruits, non - marketable fruits and total yield per treatment. The field experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with four treatments that were replicated three times. Statistical Toll for Agricultural Research (STAR) was employed to test the overall significance of data while Least Significant Difference (LSD) was used to compare the differences among means.
As as result, Treatment 1 revealed the highest average data gathered among treatment in terms of length of fruit (cm), total yield (g), marketable fruits (g) and non marketable fruits (g). Treatment 2 got the highest total number of flowers, and for the average number of fruits and fruit weight (g), Treatment 3 was the best treatment. However, in the results of ANOVA there is no significant difference among all the treatments in terms of number of flowers, number of fruits, fruit length, fruit weight, marketable fruits, non - marketable fruits and total yield per treatment.
Based on the result of the study, it is concluded that nodal pinching had no effect on the flowering and the yield components of eggplant (Solanum melongena L). Nodal pinching also had no effect on the number of flowers, number of fruits, fruit length, fruit weight, marketable fruits, non - marketable fruits and total yield per treatment.
It is clear from the results that all the growth and yield parameters does not respond to nodal pinching. Based on the findings, further studies should be conducted on other plants to evaluate the plant specificity of nodal pinching when it comes tot the flowering and other crop yield parameters.